Modern Miracles 



By REV. H. T. DAVIS 




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Modern Miracles 



BY 



REV. H. T. DAVIS, 

Author of " Solitary Places Made Glad," "Perfect 
Happiness," and "The Shining Way." 




M. W. KNAPP, 

Mount of Blessings, Cincinnati, 0. 
1901. 



THE LIBRARY OF 


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JUL 12 1901 


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Copyright 1901, 

BY 

Martin Wells Knapp. 



PREFACE. 

Sometime ago, Eev. Eoscoe A. Barnes began gath- 
ering material for the purpose of writing a book on 
nineteenth-century miracles. 

He requested me to write an introduction for the 
work. This I consented to do. Later, the arduous du- 
ties of the ministry and the pressing demands of the 
pastorate caused him to give up the undertaking. 

When I learned this, I felt wonderfully impressed 
that I myself ought to write a book on the subject sug- 
gested by Brother Barnes. 

Having consented to write the introduction for his 
book, I was led to read and think a great deal about 
the matter; and the more I read and thought, the more 
the subject grew and opened out before me, and the 
more deeply was I impressed that such a work would 
be timely and very helpful to all who might chance to 
read its pages. 

I am indebted to Brother Barnes for valuable help 
rendered in preparing this book. 

This is an age of infidelity. Doubt and uncertainty 

occupy the minds of many. There is no end to the- 

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4 Preface. 

ories and speculations. The faith of Christians in all 
the Churches is very weak. This unbelief is giving birth 
to the various false "isms" that are springing up on every 
hand, such as Christian Science, Theosophy, etc. 

My object in writing this book is to assist in counter- 
acting the growing skepticism of the day, as well as 
to help the suffering. It is the same that Mr. Miiller 
had in view in asking God for money to build his Or- 
phan Homes. It is to strengthen the faith of Chris- 
tians, and show to the world that God to-day answers 
prayer in the material realm, just as He did in the 
days of Elijah and the days of the apostles. 

H. T. DAVIS. 
Lincoln, Neb., April 17, 1901. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

PAGE. 

Introductory. 9 



CHAPTER II. 
Christian Science, 17 

CHAPTER III. 
Divine Healing, 24 

CHAPTER IV. 

Spiritual Effects of Divine Healing, .... 29 

CHAPTER V. 
Physical Healing Promised in the Bible, ... 33 

CHAPTER VI. 

The Great Men of the Church on Divine Healing, . . 41 

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6 Contents. 

CHAPTER VII. 

PAGHE. 

Physical Healing in the Primitive Church, ... 51 



CHAPTER VIII. 

The Gift op Healing Restored to the Church after the 

Dark Ages, 56 



CHAPTER IX. 
Devils Cast Out Under John Wesley, 70 

CHAPTER X. 
The Sick Healed Under John Wesley, .... 77 

CHAPTER XI. 

Further Answers to Prayer in the Physical Realm 

Under John Wesley, 84 

CHAPTER XII. 
George Muller's Fifty Thousand Answered Prayers, . 88 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Dorothea Trudel, 93 



Contents. 7 

CHAPTER XIV. 

PA&B. 

Bishop Simpson Healed — Bishop Bowman's Testimony, . 100 

CHAPTER XV. 
God's Arm Revealed, 104 



CHAPTER XVI. 

Mary Reed, the Noted Missionary, Healed op Leprosy 

in Answer to Prayer, . . . . . . Ill 



CHAPTER XVII. 
Testimonies op Persons Well Known to the Author, . 115 

CHAPTER XVIII. 
Healed of Cancer. Testimony op Mrs. G. Rolle, . . 123 

CHAPTER XIX. 

The Marvelous Experience op Dr. Finis E. Yoakum, op 

Los Angeles, California, 128 

CHAPTER XX. 
Testimony op Mrs. L. B. Dearborn, 137 



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CHAPTEE XXI. 

PAGE. 

A Broken Shoulder Instantly Healed in Answer to 

Prayer, 141 

CHAPTER XXII. 
Additional Testimonies, . 143 

CHAPTER XXIII. 
How to Receive Divine Healing, 155 



CHAPTER L 

INTKODUCTOEY. 

The tendency of the age, in many quarters, is to 
rule the supernatural out of everything, and to ascribe 
to all events a natural cause. This rationalistic trend 
moves under the name of "Scholarship;" hence is all 
the more dangerous. 

This tendency manifests itself to an alarming ex- 
tent in many of the Churches of the present day. It is 
seen in the pulpit and in the pew. The old-time, clear- 
cut, ringing conversions, such as were common in the 
days of our fathers, are seldom seen in these days. 

Many are taken into the Churches and reported con- 
verted who know nothing at all about the new birth. 
They are strangers to the miraculous change that takes 
place in every heart that experiences the great work 
described by our Savior when He said, "Ye must be 
born again." Neander says, "Conversion is the stand- 
ing miracle of the ages." 

The supernatural is not only ruled out of the spir- 
itual, but almost entirely from the physical realm. 

In the present volume we propose to prove conclu- 
sively, beyond even the shadow of a doubt, that to-day, 
as nineteen hundred years ago, God hears and answers 



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prayer in the physical as well as the spiritual realm. 
The days of miracles have not passed. 

The mighty downpour of rain, drenching the dry 
and thirsty land of Palestine, in answer to Elijah's 
prayer; the three Hebrew children walking unburnt in 
the seven times heated fiery furnace, the Form of the 
Fourth being with them, and coming out without even 
the smell of fire upon their robes; Daniel in the den, 
pillowing his head upon the mane of the old lion, and 
sleeping safely during the night with the savage beasts 
of prey, lying, mute and harmless as kittens, all around 
him; the cleansing of the leper; the giving sight to the 
blind; the calming by a word the storm-lashed sea of 
Galilee; the feeding of the five thousand with a few 
loaves and fishes, — were miracles no greater than are 
being wrought at the present day in answer to prayer. 

We present in the following pages the testimonies 
of many who were suffering with diseases that no med- 
ical skill could possibly reach, healed and made every 
whit whole in an instant in answer to prayer. These 
marvelous miracles of Divine healing, it seems, ought 
to convince even the most skeptical that Jesus Christ, 
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, is just as will- 
ing, just as able, and just as ready to heal the body now 
as when He walked along the shores of Galilee. 

We present in this book nothing but what will stand 
the test of the most rigid and thorough investigation. 

Faith is credit given to testimony. We believe the 
Bible because the testimony in favor of its inspiration 
is overwhelming. When there is an overwhelming ar- 
ray of evidence in favor of any truth, what right have 



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we to cast aside that evidence, and say, "I will not be- 
lieve it?" 

No attorney in any civil court ever had such an over- 
whelming array of evidence to prove his case as we 
present in this book to prove that God to-day heals the 
body as well as the soul in answer to prayer. And if 
the reader refuses to believe the witnesses we place upon 
the stand, then, for the very same reason, he may re- 
fuse to believe every witness that has ever testified in 
any civil court from the creation of the world to the 
present time. For the very same reason he may refuse 
to believe everything that is written in the Bible. To 
ignore these witnesses is to ignore the laws of evidence 
in all our civil and ecclesiastical courts. 

We present as witnesses the illustrious names of a 
host of men and women whose characters are beyond 
reproach, and whose veracity is absolutely unimpeach- 
able. 

If the reader will not believe these witnesses, we 
can only say, as Abraham said to the rich man, "If they 
hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be 
persuaded though one rose from the dead/' 

That there are false teachers of Divine healing is 
no argument against the doctrine. There are false 
prophets to-day, as there have been in all past ages. 
There have been spurious professors of religion in 
every age and in every Church. This fact does not in 
the least invalidate the great truths of the Christian 
religion. There are spurious professors of justification 
and spurious professors of entire sanctification. This 
fact, however, does not invalidate either of these great 



12 Modekkt Miracles. 

Bible doctrines. The doctrines stand in spite of these 
hypocritical professors. 

So there are spurious professors of Divine healing; 
but this does not in the least affect the great doctrine 
of Divine healing. The doctrine stands in spite of the 
false professors who have advocated it. 

When our Savior was upon earth, He foretold the 
coming of false prophets. He said, "False Christs and 
false prophets shall rise and shall show signs and won- 
ders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect." 
(Mark xiii, 22.) 

Dr. J. A. Dowie, of Chicago, seems to be a fulfill- 
ment of this prophecy. 

Our Savior more than intimates that false prophets 
may heal the sick, cast out devils, and do many wonder- 
ful works. 

We must remember that "good done and devils cast 
out and bodies healed by no means proves a person to 
be a true prophet, as false prophets may bear all these 
marks, and will have the audacity to flaunt them in the 
face of God in the judgment." 

"Many will say unto Me in that day, Lord, Lord, 
have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name 
cast out devils, and in Thy name done many wonderful 
works? And then will I profess unto them, I never 
knew you. Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." 
(Matt, vii, 22.) 

We indorse the following from the Pentecostal Herald. 
In referring to Dr. Dowie's bitter attack of Mr. Moody, 
the Herald says: 

"His recent tirade against Mr. Moody shows his dia- 



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bolical hatred of all who do not agree with him in every 
particular. Mr. Moody, according to Dowie, 'let the 
devil and envy and jealousy and his own ignorant pride 
and unwillingness to own that God could bless some- 
body else, come in/ Mr. Dowie further declares that 
Mr. Moody was stuffed with opiates when dying, and his 
beautiful words that he saw earth receding and heaven 
opening to view, were the result of his condition — that 
he was drunk. He says: 'I do not care for what he 
said on his death-bed. A man who is under the influ- 
ence of hypodermic injections of morphine, etc., is drunk. 
He is like the Chinaman who has smoked the opium- 
pipe. He has beautiful and pleasant visions; but they 
are not of God/ Those who were present during Mr. 
Moody's sickness deny that he was under the influence 
of morphine or any other narcotic. Mr. Dowie's words 
seem to have been wholly without foundation in fact. 
Mr. Moody did not indorse Dr. Dowie, and Dr. Dowie 
declares that the curse of God was upon him in conse- 
quence; that he would have lived to do good work for 
ten more years but for that. Dowie makes the most 
extravagant claims to being a prophet of God, and thun- 
ders his anathemas against all who dare oppose him. His 
utterances remind one very forcibly of the extravagant 
claims of the popes of Eome and the terrible denuncia- 
tion they pronounced in the name of God upon all who 
dared question their infallibility. 

"Dr. Dowie is evidently using the simple truth of 
Divine healing for the advancement of his own selfish 
ends. It is cause of great regret that men should make 
merchandise of the gospel. 



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"It is confessed that some remarkable cases of heal- 
ing have taken place under Dr. Dowie, but these are 
accounted for as follows: 

"Some really trust in God, and receive healing, in 
spite of man or methods. 

"Some are dominated by the stronger will of Dowie 
and his co-laborers, and receive a kind of mind healing. 

"Some are hypnotized, and claim healing while yet 
possessed of disease. 

"Some come with imaginary diseases, and claim heal- 
ing when their delusion is simply dispelled for the time. 

"A large per cent claim healing, but either die at the 
institution, or die soon after leaving it. 

"Now, we wish it understood that we thoroughly be- 
lieve in Divine healing, but not in going to Chicago or 
anywhere else to obtain it; but just where you look up to 
God in faith, there and then the work will be done." 

God strangely permits the devil to have access to men, 
and to afflict them now as he did Job. God restrains the 
devil, and allows him to be an instrument of judgment. 
Sickness comes from Satan, it comes from natural causes, 
and it comes by Divine permission. Sometimes it is per- 
mitted as a chastisement. If God is in the chastening, 
God alone can command its removal. He who permits 
the sickness, the suffering, the chastening, will remove it 
in answer to the prayer of faith. 

Mr. Wesley in his notes on James v, 14, "Is any sick 
among you? let him call for the elders of the Church; 
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in 
the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save 
the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up," says: "This 



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single conspicuous gift, which Christ committed to His 
apostles, remained in the Church long after other mirac- 
ulous gifts were withdrawn. This was the whole pro- 
cess of physic in the Christian Church till it was lost 
through unbelief." 

If the gift of healing were lost through unbelief, as 
Mr. Wesley says, may it not be restored by faith? 

This we verily believe. The prayer of faith brings 
healing to the body to-day, just as it did in the days of 
our Savior, as thousands are ready to testify. 

There is a strange inconsistency in many ministers, 
and many of our laymen as well. Ministers of all ortho- 
dox denominations will go into the sick-room of their 
parishioners, get down upon their knees, and pray ear- 
nestly that God may heal the sick. Sometimes they will 
pray that Cod may bless the means and restore to health 
the sick, and at other times they will offer a prayer some- 
thing like the following: a O God, we ask Thee, for Thy 
Son's sake, rebuke the disease, and restore to health this 
sick person/' Many and many a time I have myself 
offered such a prayer as that in the sick-room. All our 
ministers teach their people, in public and private, almost 
daily, that God will in answer to prayer heal the sick. 
And yet if a person comes out and publicly declares that 
Jesus Christ to-day, in answer to prayer, will heal the 
body without medicine, just as He did when here upon 
earth nineteen hundred years ago, these very same per- 
sons will lift up their hands in holy horror, and cry 
"Fanaticism!" We are orthodox on our knees, but heter- 
odox on our feet. "0 consistency, thou art a jewel!" 

"The prayer of faith shall saye the sick, and the 



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Lord shall raise him up." James does not say the oil will 
heal him, a little medicine will heal him. But he says 
emphatically, "The Lord shall raise him up." Jesus 
Christ, by His own omnipotent power alone, will raise 
him up in answer to the prayer of faith. And thousands 
on thousands in the present century have had that posi- 
tive promise fulfilled to the very letter. 

This we expect to make as clear as the noon-day sun 
in the following pages. 



CHAPTER II. 

CHKISTIAN SCIENCE. 

But says one, "What about Christian Science?" "Is 
not your doctrine of Divine healing the same as Christian 
Science?" Not at all. They are as unlike as day and 
night. 

Not long ago the editor of a great Church paper 
classed Divine healing with Christian Science, making no 
difference between the two. Such a reckless statement 
shows either gross ignorance or maliciousness, either of 
which in one who pretends to be a teacher of the people 
is unjustifiable. 

The wonderful power the mind has over the body is 
well known to many, and especially to the medical fra- 
ternity. Doctors often give sham medicine to persons 
suffering from hysteria. A little pellet of sugar without 
a particle of medicine in it will often cure the patient 
suffering from a supposed terrible and dangerous disease. 

Christian Science has performed some wonderful cures 
among those afflicted with hysteria and hypochondria. 
Over such persons Christian Science has had great power. 

Paul says: "For Satan himself is transformed into an 
angel of light; therefore it is no great thing if his min- 
isters also be transformed as the ministers of righteous- 
ness; whose end shall be according to their works." 
2 17 



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(2 Cor. xi, 14, 15.) Satan to-day appears as an angel of 
light. "It belongs to the art of his ministers to trans- 
form themselves. It is not in appearing as evil that Satan 
and his servants have the greatest power; but in appear- 
ing as good and beautiful — as angels of light." 

This, Satan has most skillfully done, not only in spirit- 
ualism, but in what is known as Christian Science. It 
is in the nature of the cunning craftiness of the devil to 
so counterfeit the works of Christ as to beguile the un- 
wary, and lead them away from the simplicity of the 
truth in Jesus. Many insist that Christian Science and 
Divine healing are the same; but the fact is, there is no 
likeness whatever, and not a particle of sympathy. 

Christian Science, falsely so-called, is one of the most 
subtle, insidious, deceptive systems ever proposed by Satan 
to ruin men. The enemy has thrown out this snare, and 
he is drawing men and women into it by the thousand. 

Many of our best men and women are insidiously 
drawn into this snare by the superficial tracts and publi- 
cations of the Christian Science leaders. 

These tracts do not give the real teachings of Mrs. 
Eddy, the founder of this system, but they represent that 
Christian Science is, like Divine healing, founded on the 
Bible. 

The leaders do not allow Mrs. Edd/s book to go into 
the hands of their victims until they are quite sure they 
have them snared and under their complete control. 

I am not writing at random. I know whereof I affirm. 
Some twelve years ago or more a friend of ours, and a 
member of the same Church, but a believer in Christian 
Science, would, whenever opportunity offered, talk to my 



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wife on her favorite theme. One day when talking to 
my wife on the subject she said, "You don't condemn 
Christian Science?" "No," said my wife. "I do n't know 
anything about Christian Science. I do n't condemn a 
thing I know nothing at all about." 

Then she gave my wife a kind invitation to attend 
one of their meetings, and she accepted it, taking with her 
our youngest daughter. 

Mrs. Eaton, one of the great teachers of their doc- 
trine, was present. Mrs. Eaton and others that were 
there went through their silent incantations. They tried 
hard to draw my wife and daughter into their snare, and 
did all they possibly could to exert their mesmeric power 
over them. But failed utterly. When the meeting closed, 
Mrs. Eaton wanted to sell my wife one of Mrs. Eddy's 
books. But our friend spoke up in an instant, and said, 
"0 no, Mrs. Davis is not ready for this book yet." She 
knew very well that they had failed to convince her, and 
that it would not do at all at that stage to let her know 
their real doctrines. Mrs. Eddy says in her book, "That 
there is neither a personal Deity, a personal devil, nor a 
personal man." She says, "Jesus was the name of a 
man." A Divine Christ has no place in her creed. 

She says: "All is mind; there is no matter. All is 
harmony; there is no discord. All is life; there is no 
death. All is good; there is no evil." 

"There is no sin." If there is no sin, of course there 
is no atonement for sin, so farewell to the whole Chris- 
tian system. 

Again, says Mrs. Eddy: "Everything is mind. On this 
statement I stand." (Science and Health, page 424.) 



20 Modern Miracles. 

That is the foundation on which Christian Science 
rests. 

If "all is mind/' then the hody exists only in thought, 
or, in other words, is not a reality at all. 

"All is mind; therefore, there can he no such thing 
as sin. "All is mind;" therefore there is really no pain, 
no suffering, no sickness, no sorrow. What seems so is 
of the mind. That is the message of Christian Science 
to the sick, the suffering, and the sorrowing. We are to 
think all the evil out of existence, 

"How is your grandfather this morning, Bridget?" 
said a Christian Science practitioner to an Irish child. 

"He still has the rheumatics mighty bad, mum," was 
the answer. 

"You mean he thinks he has the rheumatism. There 
is no such thing as rheumatism." 

"Yes, mum," responded the child. 

A few days later they met again. 

"And does your grandfather still persist in his de- 
lusion that he has the rheumatism?" 

"No mum, the poor man thinks now he is dead. We 
buried him yesterday." 

That is not even a caricature of the new fad. 

Christian Science is one of the most fatal isms of the 
age. It is antichristian in its teachings, and there can 
be no fellowship whatever between it and Divine healing. 

The Gnostics of the first century claimed that the body 
of Jesus Christ was a myth, or, as now set forth by Chris- 
tian Science, as an "idea." To meet this Gnostic mysti- 
cism John wrote his first epistle. And he shows very 
clearly that the Christian Science of to-day is the anti- 



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christ that should come into the world. "Beloved, be- 
lieve not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they 
are of God; because many false prophets are gone out 
into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every 
spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the 
flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that 
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this 
is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that 
it should come; and even now already is it in the world." 
(1 John iv, 1-3.) 

Our Savior declares in the thirteenth chapter of Mark, 
that at last "False Christs and false prophets shall rise, 
and shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were 
possible, even the elect. But take ye heed, behold I have 
foretold you all things." 

The Christian Science leaders are the false prophets 
spoken of by Christ who should come in the last days, 
and by their "signs and wonders" would seduce even the 
very best. They are doing to-day just what Christ fore- 
told they would do. 

While the doctrine of Christian Science contradicts 
reason and common sense, there are at the same time, 
strange as it may seem, many intelligent and very sincere 
people who are carried away with, and really believe it. 
We remember distinctly when pastor at Beatrice nine- 
teen years ago, three families who were leading members 
of our Church. They were devoted and very active. The 
heads of two of these families were official members. 
After we left the station they were carried away with 
Christian Science, and left the Church. The parents of 
one of these families had a son some twelve years old. 



22 Modern Miracles. 

This son took the typhoid fever. His parents told him 
he was not sick, that he only had a belief that he was 
sick. They would not allow him to lie down. One morn- 
ing while the poor boy was suffering intensely from the 
growing fever, he was ordered to go out and harness the 
horses, and while in the act of trying to harness one, fell 
dead beside the horse. The father and mother separated. 
The mother became a Christian Science doctor. Years 
afterwards I met that woman at the depot in Beatrice. 
The meek, mild, gentle, modest Christian look she once 
had was gone, and there was a bold, brazen look upon her 
face that made me shudder. 

The husband of one of the other families became a 
Christian Science doctor, and the last we heard of him 
he was in the East practicing his art. 

In other places, among other families, we have known 
of the same sad ruin it has wrought. The awful havoc 
that Christian Science has made in many families is abso- 
lutely appalling. No such sad effects follow Divine 
healing. 

I believe that if we had preached and taught the doc- 
trine of Divine healing, just as it is taught in the Bible, 
we might have saved thousands from being carried away 
by the awful Christian Science delusion, and other thou- 
sands from being carried away by Dowieism. 

Is not the Church, therefore, responsible, to an ex- 
tent at least, for these growing evils? I am sure this is 
the case, and yet at the same time I do not feel like criti- 
cising or finding fault with the Church, for I myself have 
been so slow to see this Bible doctrine in its true light. 

I attribute my slowness to apprehend this great truth 



Cheistian Science. 23 

to early teachings. I was early taught by great and good 
men that miracles were withdrawn from the Church at 
the close of the Apostolic age. Had I read more care- 
fully in my early life the teachings of John Wesley, the 
Christian Fathers, the standard authors of the Church, 
and the Bible on this subject, I never would have believed 
any such thing. 

Human opinions, human theories, all human teach- 
ings, do not count the weight of a feather with me, unless 
they tally perfectly with the Bible. I have found that 
some great and good men have made grave mistakes. 

So if the teachings of men do not square precisely 
with the Word of God, I cast them aside. Men are 
fallible. God alone is infallible. The only infallible 
book in the world is the Bible. 



CHAPTER III. 

DIVINE HEALING. 

Divine healing and Christian Science are antipodal. 
Those who believe ia Divine healing, believe that Jesus 
Christ is God over all and blessed for evermore; and that 
by His Divine power alone we are healed. 

Divine healing is not Christian Science; it is not 
imaginary healing; it is not simply the exercise of will 
power; it is not mind cure; it is not spiritualism; it is 
not faith healing; it is not immunity from death, nor 
from sickness. Those who believe in Divine healing get 
sick, and when their work is done they die. It is not 
presumption, or a disregard of God's will. It is the direct 
Power of God exercised upon the body. It is the per- 
sonal indwelling of Christ by His Spirit in our body, 
healing it from disease, just as the personal indwelling 
of the Holy Ghost heals the soul from sin. 

It is an argument that proves beyond a peradventure 
that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and 
forever. Jesus to-day touches the body and heals it, in 
answer to the prayer of faith, just as He touched the eyes 
of the blind man when here upon earth and healed them. 
Glory unto the Triune Jehovah forever! 

"We speak that we do know, and testify that we have 
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Divine Healing. 25 

seen," and have experienced. We have felt the Divine 
touch in our own body, and its rapturous thrill by far 
exceeded anything we ever felt in all our life before. 

There is nothing in all the wide world that Satan 
hates so much as he does Divine healing. If Jesus Christ 
heals the body of disease to-day, just as He did when He 
walked the earth nineteen hundred years ago, that fact 
strikes a blow at Satan's empire that shakes it to its very 
center. No wonder, then, that the devil should rally all 
his forces to oppose this Bible doctrine. 

Again, Divine healing is the fulfillment of those prom- 
ises that can not possibly be explained by those who take 
the ground that mriacles ceased at the close of the Apos- 
tolic age. There is a long list of promises that are ig- 
nored in all our public teachings. It seems that a portion 
of Eevelation has, by common consent, been set aside. 
Do we believe that God means just what He plainly de- 
clares? or, if we believe it, do we fear the charge of 
fanaticism if we openly declare that we take God at His 
Word? When the thoughtful Christian, in his daily read- 
ing of the Scriptures, meets with any of these wonderful 
promises made to believers, he often pauses to ask him- 
self, "What can these words mean?" Can it be that God 
has made such wonderful promises as these to me, and 
to such men as I am?" "If I am sick, can I ask God 
to heal me?" "Is prayer really a power with God? Is 
it not merely a power, but is it a transcendent power, 
accomplishing what no other power can, overruling all 
other agencies, and rendering them subservient to its 
own wonderful efficiency?" I think there are few devout 
believers of the Bible to whom these questions are not 



26 Modern Miracles. 

frequently suggested. We ask them, but we do not wait 
for an answer. These promises seem to us to be ad- 
dressed either to a past or coming age, but not to us at 
the present day. And yet with such views the devout 
soul is not satisfied. The promises made to believing 
prayer are explicit, positive, numerous, and diversified. 
Our difficulty seems to be this: the promise is so "ex- 
ceeding great" that we can not conceive that God really 
means what He clearly appears to have revealed. The 
blessing seems too vast for our comprehension. We 
"stagger at the promises through unbelief," and thus fail 
to secure the treasure which was purchased for us by 
Jesus Christ. 

Take the following promises: 

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall 
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for every 
one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth: 
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what 
man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he 
give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him 
a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good 
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your 
Father which is in heaven give good things to them that 
ask him?" (Matt, vii, 7-11.) 

"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree 
on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it 
shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven." 
(Matt, xviii, 19.) 

"All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ- 
ing, ye shall receive." (Matt, xxi, 22.) 

"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye 



Divine Healing. 27 

desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and 
ye shall have them." (Mark xi, 24.) 

"Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, 
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall 
ask any thing in My name, I will do it." (John xiv, 
13,14.) 

"If our heart condemn ns not, then have we confidence 
toward God. And whatsoever we ask we receive of Him, 
because we keep His commandments and do those things 
that are pleasing in His sight." (1 John iii, 21, 22.) 

¥ow we do not claim that all the foregoing promises 
apply literally to the physical realm. But we do claim 
that some of them do, and are to be so taken, or God 
does not mean what He says. 

Some of these promises are not confined to the spir- 
itual realm alone. They reach out into the physical realm 
as well. 

James says (v, 14, 15): "Is any sick among you? let 
him call for the elders of the Church; and let them pray 
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord 
shall raise him up." 

The apostle illustrates what he means by availing 
prayer, by the example of Elias, a man subject to like 
passions as we are. 

"He prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it 
rained not on the earth by the space of three years and 
six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave 
rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." The apostle 
here clearly teaches that God answers prayer in the 
physical world to-day, just as He did in the days of Elijah. 



28 MODEEtf MlKACLES. 

Divine healing, therefore, is the fulfillment of many 
promises in the Bible that can not possibly be explained 
by those who hold that miracles ceased at the close of the 
Apostolic age. Before these wonderful promises the ob- 
jector to modern miracles stands dumb. 

If you will go to Christ in unshaken confidence — with 
a faith that "laughs at impossibilities" — Jesus will honor 
your faith, grant your request, and heal your body. 

Exceptions. 

"All general rules have their exceptions, and that of 
healing is not exempt. 

"Exception of the time when one's life-work is com- 
pleted. 

"Exception of when, as with Job, healing is tempo- 
rarily delayed for the purpose of discipline; or, in other 
cases, of correction. 

"Exception of all those who neglect to meet the con- 
ditions upon which it is extended." 

"Happy are the people who have learned to look to 
Christ for the healing of their bodies as well as the sal- 
vation of their souls, and give Him all the praise for 
both. This does not preclude, but embraces, conformity 
to sanitary laws that govern the body, and the exercising 
of common sense, precaution, and care for it." * 

*M. W. Knapp. 



CHAPTER IV. 

SPIKITUAL EFFECTS OF DIVINE HEALING. 

The spiritual effects of the healing of the body by- 
faith are far greater than the physical benefits derived. 
He who takes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Healer of the 
body has reached the Alpine heights of spirituality. He 
stands upon a spiritual altitude far above any on which 
he ever stood before. He is a little nearer heaven, and 
breathes a purer atmosphere than ever. The bodily bene- 
fits are almost entirely lost sight of by the overwhelming 
spiritual glories that surround and envelop his whole 
being. 

I never shall forget the joy that came into my soul 
when God, for Christ's sake, pardoned all my sins, and 
the Holy Ghost bore witness with my spirit that I was a 
child of God. I leaped to my feet and shouted, "Glory 
to God in the highest!" That wonderful event stands 
out in the history of my past life like a great mountain 
peak, towering far above all the plains below. 

Then I never shall forget the joy and wonderful peace 
that came so gently and quietly into my soul when God, 
for Christ's sake, sanctified me wholly. I was on my face 
in the straw at the Bennett Camp-meeting when the 
cleansing blood swept through my soul, washing it whiter 

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30 Modern Miracles. 

than snow, and the peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing began to flow into my heart. 

These were marvelous events in my life, and brought 
to my soul blessings which continue to this day, and for 
which I shall praise God for ever and ever. 

But when the physical evidence came to me that 
God, for Christ's sake, had healed my body of a disease 
of thirty five years' standing, there swept through my soul 
thrills of rapturous joy that no language can possibly 
describe. Wave after wave of glory rolled over my whole 
being. I was a little nearer in touch with the Divine 
Christ than ever. It is a great thing to have Jesus Christ 
by His Spirit come into the soul, cleanse it from all sin, 
and then take up His abode and abide there. 

But when Jesus Christ touches the body and heals it, 
thrills of rapturous joy go through the soul, such as were 
never before experienced. This is something tangible. 
And it makes the whole system of Christianity appear 
more real than ever before. 

Some years ago I was very remarkably drawn out 
after God. I had at the time the clear evidence that I 
was fully saved. I had no doubt whatever as to my entire 
sanctification. I was conscious that the. blood of Jesus 
Christ did cleanse my heart from all sin. But still I 
longed for more. I had read the experience of some, and 
heard the experience of others, who, I thought, had a far 
richer, deeper, and mightier baptism than I had ever 
had. And so I told God, if there was anything more for 
me that would better equip me for my work in soul- 
saving, I wanted it. I think I felt as David did when he 
cried out, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, 



Spikitfal Effects of Divine Healing. 31 

so panteth my soul after Thee, God!" Then the ques- 
tion of Divine healing was brought to my mind. The 
suggestion came to me, "The Lord healed your wife, in 
answer to prayer, of a disease the doctors could not pos- 
sibly cure ; why do n't you ask God to heal you of your 
indigestion?" 

I began a careful and prayerful study of the Bible, 
and was soon convinced that it was my privilege to claim 
healing for the body as well as for the soul. Then I 
asked God to give me the necessary faith. God answered 
my prayer, and gave me "the gift of faith." 

When the physical evidence came that I was healed, 
the spiritual blessing was far greater than the physical. 
I can not better illustrate this than by referring to an 
incident in my past life: , 

Some years ago I was very sick. My friends all 
thought I was going to die. I was very low, and only 
a few of my nearest relatives were admitted into my 
room. That was the happiest period of my life. I was 
just on the borders of heaven, and was breathing the 
fragrant odors of the skies. All about me was pure 
love. When my children came around me, they seemed 
all love. When my wife came near, she was all love. 
Every one that came into my room was all love. The 
bliss of that period no language can possibly describe. 
I was floating in an atmosphere of love. I did not die, 
however. I got well, and when I recovered I thought 
I never should have such an experience as that again 
until I get just as near heaven as I was at that time. 

Well, when God healed my body of a disease of long 
years' standing I had a similar experience. Along with 



32 Modern Mieacles. 

that healing there came a wonderful baptism of love. 
I seemed surrounded with an atmosphere of pure love. 
It was with me by day and with me by night, week in 
and week out, and, to an extent, it is with me to-day. 

I do not pretend to say that every one who takes 
Christ as the Healer of the body will have just such an 
experience as I had; but the almost universal verdict 
of those who have trusted Christ for the healing of the 
body is, The spiritual blessings received are far greater 
than the physical benefits derived. 



CHAPTER V. 

PHYSICAL HEALING PEOMISED IN THE BIBLE. 

A few years ago, being led by the Holy Ghost, as 
I verily believe, I began a most careful and prayerful 
study of the Bible on the subject of Divine healing. 
I prayed earnestly that the Holy Ghost might lead me 
into the light touching this matter. 

In the Old Testament I found many promises that 
God would heal the sick. I turned to Exodus xxiii, 25: 
"I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." And 
in Deuteronomy vii, 15, I read: "The Lord will take 
away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the 
evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee." 

These promises were fulfilled in a very remarkable 
manner all along the centuries, down to the close of the 
Jewish dispensation. 

Abraham offered the prayer of faith, and Abimeleeh 
and his household were healed. Moses cried to God 
for Miriam, saying, "Heal her now, God, I beseech 
Thee." At the end of seven days the leprosy departed. 
Naaman the Syrian was recovered of his leprosy by the 
faith of Elisha; Hezekiah was raised up from his death- 
bed in answer to prayer, and his life lengthened by fifteen 
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34 Modern Miracles. 

years. These cases of healing were not confined to the 
opening of the dispensation, but belonged to its entire 
history. 

Solomon prayed at the dedication of the temple: 
"Whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sickness there be; then 
what prayer, or what supplication soever shall be made 
of any man, or of all Thy people Israel, then hear Thou 
from heaven, Thy dwelling-place, and forgive." (2 Chron. 
vi, 29, 30. 

G-od answered Solomon, saying: "I have heard thy 
prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before 
Me; I have hallowed this house to put My name there 
forever." (1 Kings ix, 3.) "If I shut up heaven, or 
if I send pestilence among My people; if My people 
humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and 
turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from 
heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their 
land." (2 Chron. vii, 13, 14.) 

Here is a broad and glorious promise, and we know 
from the history of the prophets and saints how "con- 
stantly this promise opened to the key of faith and 
poured forth its treasures." 

All this God did for His people under the old dis- 
pensation. Is He not willing to do as much for His 
people now? Indeed, how much greater things might 
we expect under the new! When Jesus, the great Cap- 
tain of our salvation, ascended to heaven, He gave gifts 
to men. First the Comforter, the great and supreme 
gift, to abide perpetually in the Church; and with the 
Comforter and through Him, "miracles, then gifts of 
healing," etc. (1 Cor. xii, 28.) 



Physical Healing Promised. 35 

I turned to the New Testament, and the first thing 
that struck me with great force was Christ's command 
to His disciples: "And when He had called unto Him 
His twelve disciples, He gave them power against un- 
clean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner 
of sickness and all manner of disease/' Then He said 
to them, "Go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven 
is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received, freely 
give." (Matt, x, 1; vii, 8.) 

"And He ordained twelve that they should be with 
Him, and that He might send them forth to preach, and 
to have power to heal sickness, and to cast out devils." 
(Mark iii, 14, 15.) 

"Then He called His twelve disciples together, and 
gave them power and authority over all devils, and to 
cure diseases. And He sent them to preach the king- 
dom, and to heal the sick." (Luke ix, 1, 2.) 

When our Savior appointed the seventy, and sent 
them forth, He said unto them, "Into whatsoever city ye 
enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set 
before you, and heal the sick that are therein." (Luke 
x, 8, 9.) Here we see that each one of the evangelists, 
in speaking of Christ's commission to the disciples to 
preach the gospel, couples with it the command to heal 
the sick. 

And I could not find a single syllable in the Bible to 
show that this command had ever been repealed. 

After our Savior's resurrection, just a little while 
before He ascended to heaven, He gave to His disciples 
the great commission, "Go ye into all the world, and 



36 Modekn Miracles. 

preach the gospel to every creature." And one of the 
signs that was to follow the preaching of the gospel to 
every creature was, "They shall lay hands on the sick, 
and they shall recover." (Mark xvi, 15, 18.) 

The question came to me with wonderful force as I 
read this passage, "Has Christ ever changed the great 
commission He gave to His disciples to preach the gos- 
pel to every creature?" "Has that command ever been 
repealed?" All our missionaries are sent forth in obe- 
dience to this command. Every effort to evangelize the 
world is put forth in compliance with the great commis- 
sion. Then another burning question came home to me 
with tremendous force and power, "Is it said anywhere 
in the New Testament Scriptures that the signs that 
were to follow the preaching of the gospel to every crea- 
ture should at any time in the future cease?" 

The command stands. All admit this. Should not 
the signs follow as well? If we admit the one, how dare 
we reject the other? 

The next question that rose in my mind was, "Did 
the disciples heal the sick?" 

They were commanded by the Savior to heal the sick 
and cure diseases. Did they do it? I turned to Mark 
vi, 12, 13: "And they went out, and preached that men 
should repent. And they cast out many devils, and 
anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them." 

A certain man, lame from his mother's womb, who 
lay daily at the gate of the temple, and asked alms of 
them that entered into the temple, was instantly healed 
by the faith of Peter and John. "Then Peter said, Silver 
and gold have I none; but such as I have I give thee. 



Physical Healing Pkomised. 37 

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and 
walk. And he took him by the hand, and lifted him up, 
and immediately his feet and ankle-bones received 
strength. And he, leaping up, stood, and walked, and 
entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping 
and praising God." (Acts iii, 6-8.) 

Philip wrought miracles of healing in the city of 
Samaria. , "For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, 
came out of many that were possessed with them; and 
many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were 
healed." (Acts viii, 7.) 

"And it came to pass that the father of Publius lay 
sick of a fever and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul en- 
tered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and 
healed him. So when this was done, others also, which 
had diseases in the island, came and were healed." (Acts 
xxviii, 8, 9.) "And there sat a certain man at Lystra, 
impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's 
womb, who never had walked. The same heard Paul 
speak, who, steadfastly beholding him, perceiving that 
he had faith to be healed, said, with a loud voice, Stand 
upon thy feet. And he leaped and walked." (Acts 
xiv, 8-10.) 

Not only did the Twelve and the Seventy work mir- 
acles of healing, but Paul and Barnabas, many years 
afterwards, did the same. 

Thirty years after the crucifixion of Christ the same 
command that had been given to the disciples was given 
to the Church by the Holy Ghost. You will find it 
in James v, 14, 15. "Is any sick among you? Let him 
call for the elders of the Church, and let them pray 



38 Modern Miracles. 

over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the 
Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and 
the Lord shall raise him up." 

Then the question arose, "Have these commands, 
given by Christ to His disciples, and given by the Holy 
Ghost through James to the Church, ever been re- 
pealed?" 

I could not find a single syllable in the Bible that 
goes to show that these commands had ever been abro- 
gated. The conclusion was irresistible. Are they not 
just as binding upon us to-day as they were when they 
were given to the Church nineteen hundred years ago? 
Again, when Christ was here upon earth, He healed all 
manner of sickness and all manner of diseases. The 
blind received their sight, the lame walked, the lepers 
were cleansed, the deaf were made to hear, and the 
sick were healed. Never in all the history of His life 
did the Savior turn any away who appealed to Him 
for help. He healed all who came to Him, and asked to 
be healed. 

Paul says, in the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews, 
eighth verse, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, 
and forever." 

Jesus Christ has gone up into the presence of the 
Father with a perfect human body; and to-day, as nine- 
teen hundred years ago, He is "touched with the feel- 
ings of our infirmities." He feels toward us to-day just 
as He did when He wept at the grave of Lazarus; just 
as He did when He had compassion on the hungry mul- 
titudes, and fed them; just as He did when He was 
moved with compassion toward the multitudes that fol- 






Physical Healing Promised. 39 

lowed Him, and healed their sick. His great heart of 
sympathy goes out toward the suffering now just as it 
did then. He is just as ready and just as willing and 
just as able to heal the sick now as He was when He 
walked along the shores of Galilee. These were the 
thoughts that came crowding in upon my mind as I 
studied this subject. 

Having been convinced from the clear and unequiv- 
ocal declarations of the Bible that the power to heal 
the sick was not limited to the old dispensation, nor to 
the Apostolic age, but was perpetual, for all times, down 
to the winding up of the world's history, for us to-day 
as well as for the disciples of old, another question rose 
in my mind, namely, "Is Divine healing in the atone- 
ment?" "Did Christ, in the atonement, provide for the 
healing of the body as well as the soul?" 

When this question came to me, I just got down on 
my knees, with my Bible open before me, and offered 
this prayer: "0 my Father, I ask You, in the name and 
for the sake of Thine only begotten Son, and for Thy 
glory, turn the searchlight of the Holy Ghost on Thy 
Word, and show me whether provision has been made 
in the atonement for the healing of the body." I turned 
to Isaiah liii, 4: "Surely He hath borne our griefs, and 
carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, 
smitten of God, and afflicted." I made this note in the 
margin: "Christ bore in His body all our sins, and 
the consequences of sin, spiritually and bodily. Is 
it not clear, then, that there is bodily healing pro- 
vided in the atonement?" I was very clearly im- 
pressed that there was, and yet I was not altogether 



40 Modern Miracles. 

satisfied. There was still a doubt hanging over my mind. 
I wanted something still more definite. I turned to 
the eighth chapter of Matthew, and read of Christ's 
cleansing the leper, and healing the centurion's servant, 
and how He touched the hand of Peter's wife's mother, 
as she lay sick with a fever, and immediately the fever 
left her, and she arose and ministered unto them, and 
how He delivered all that were possessed of devils, and 
healed all that were sick. These wonderful miracles 
were all wrought, as we are told in the seventeenth verse, 
"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias 
the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and 
hare our sicknesses." 

When I read these words, I was thrilled. They went 
through me like an electric shock. Tears rolled down 
my face, and I said: "Here it is, clear as the noonday 
sun. Divine healing is in the atonement." "He bare 
our sicknesses." I was clearly convinced that Divine heal- 
ing was in the atonement, not in the same sense that 
regeneration and sanctification are, and needs the appli- 
cation of the blood of Christ. But sickness being one 
of the sad consequences of sin, and Christ having borne 
in His body all the consequences of sin, therefore every 
sick person who can offer "the prayer of faith" may be 
healed. 

When all these facts were clearly brought before me 
from a careful and prayerful study of the Bible, aided 
by the Holy Ghost, I felt that I had a foundation as 
firm as God's eternal throne, on which to base my faith 
that God would heal the body in answer to prayer. 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE GREAT MEN OF THE CHURCH ON DIVINE 
HEALING. 

Having been clearly convinced by a prayerful study 
of the naked Word of God that Divine healing is posi- 
tively promised in the Bible, and that provision has been 
made in the atonement for the healing of the body as 
well as the soul, I began carefully to look up authorities. 

First. What do the great men of the Church teach 
touching Divine healing being in the atonement? 

French, the author of that wonderful book on the 
miracles of our Lord, the clearest and most critical on the 
great truths of the miracles wrought by our Savior, says 
(page 33): 

"Then, if we ask ourselves, What are the physical 
manifestations of sin? they are sicknesses of all kinds, 
fevers, palsies, leprosies, blindness, each of these death 
beginning, a partial death, and, finally, the death abso- 
lute of the body. This region, therefore, is fitly another, 
as it is the widest region of His redemptive grace. In 
the conquering and removing of these evils, He emi- 
nently bodied forth the idea of Himself as the Redeemer 
of men." 

Dr. William Nast, the great commentator and founder 
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42 Modern Miracles. 

of German Methodism in America, and one of the most 
devoted of God's servants, as well as one of the ripest 
scholars of his day, in his comments on Matthew viii, 17, 
gives us Mr. Watson's views touching the atonement of 
the body. And Mr. Watson is recognized as a great 
standard in the Christian Church. Mr. Watson says: 

"Whatever blessings, therefore, our Lord bestowed 
during His ministry on earth were given with reference 
to that bearing of the penalty of sin which He was ulti- 
mately to sustain, and by virtue of which He was to 
take it away in all its consequences, to all those who 
would come to Him in faith. And as by virtue of that 
anticipated atonement, He, while on earth, forgave sins, 
so, by virtue of the same anticipated atonement, He 
healed the diseases of the body, all of which are the 
fruits of sin. Whenever, therefore, He did either of 
these, removing either sin itself from the conscience of 
men, or any of its consequences from their persons, in 
virtue of His being the appointed sin-offering, these 
words of the prophet, 'Surely He has borne our griefs, 
and carried our sorrows/ were directly fulfilled. Since 
these were the proofs and effects of His substitution in 
our place as the accepted sacrifice, they were all, in a 
word, demonstrative of the efficacy of His atonement." 

Whedon, the ablest and most critical commentator 
in Methodism, unless it be Adam Clarke, says, on Matthew 
viii, 17: 

"Took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. Sick- 
ness, mortality, temporal death, are as truly a part of 
the great penalty of sin as the very pains of hell itself. 



Great Men on Divine Healing. 43 

All these were borne by the Savior in the form of aton- 
ing sufferings on the cross. He healed sickness, there- 
fore, by bearing even them in His own body on the tree." 

Bengel, on Matthew viii, 17, says: 

"It represents Christ, not as our Physician, but as 
sufferer for us. His burden was less the healing than 
that there were sicknesses to heal. He bore them by 
bearing our suffering life, in order to remove them." 

Alford, on Matthew viii, 17, says: 

"The very act of compassion (as the name imports), 
a suffering with its object, and if this be true between 
man and man, how much more strictly so in His case 
who had taken upon Him the whole burden of the sin 
of the world, with all its sad train of sorrow and suf- 
fering." 

All these standard authors of the Church recognize 
the great fact that in the atonement made by Jesus 
Christ provision has been made for the sickness of the 
body. So when we say Divine healing is in the atone- 
ment, we are not out of harmony with the great and 
leading lights of the Church: French, Nast, Whedon, 
Clarke, Watson, Alford, and Bengel. Before the wisdom 
of these great and devoted men the Church bows with 
reverence to-day. 

Second. Was Divine healing to continue in the 
Church? So far as I have been able to learn, the Word 
of God nowhere states that it was not. Jesus said it 
was to follow as the result of believing. "Go ye into 
all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 
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44 Modern Mieacles. 

one of the signs that was to follow was, "They shall 
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." (Mark 
xvi, 15, 18.) 

Says an eminent writer, "Jesus does not limit the 
time, and I know of no Scripture that does; and until 
God annuls His own Word I must stand by it." 

Stier, the commentator, puts the two sayings side 
by side, and bids us look at them. "He that believeth 
shall be saved." "Them that believe, these signs shall 
follow." "Both the one and the other apply to ourselves 
down to the present day, and indeed for all future time. 
Every one applies the first part of the saying to our- 
selves, teaching everywhere that faith and baptism are 
necessary in all ages to salvation, and that unbelief in 
all ages excludes from it. But what right has any to 
separate the words that Jesus immediately added from 
His former words? Where is it said that these former 
words have reference to all men and all Christians, but 
that the promised signs which should follow those who 
believed referred solely to the Christians of the first 
age? What God hath joined together, let no man put 
asunder." 

The great reformers and the great commentators 
believed in Divine healing, and that it was to continue 
in the Church throughout all ages. Martin Luther said, 
"God gave me back my dear Philip in direct answer to 
prayer." The great reformer knew where to go to find 
the needed supply for the body. 

John Wesley says (Volume V, page 328): 

"Yet I do not know that God hath any way pre- 
cluded Himself from thus exerting His sovereign power, 



Great Men on Divine Healing. 45 

from working miracles in any kind or degree, in any 
age, to the end of the world. I do not recollect any 
Scripture wherein we are taught that miracles were to 
be confined within the limits either of the Apostolic or 
Cyprianic age ; or of any period of time, longer or shorter, 
even to the restitution of all things. I have not ob- 
served, either in the Old Testament or the New, any 
intimation at all of this kind." "But He does not say, 
either, that these, or any other miracles, shall cease till 
faith and hope shall cease also, till they all shall be 
swallowed up in the vision of God, and love be all in all." 

Again, says Wesley, on James v, 14: 

"This single conspicuous gift, which Christ commit- 
ted to His apostles (Mark vi, 13), remained in the 
Church long after the other miraculous gifts were with- 
drawn. Indeed, it seems to have been designed to remain 
alwa3^s; and St. James directs the elders, who were the 
most, if not the only gifted men, to administer it. This 
was the whole process of physic in the Christian Church, 
till it was lost through unbelief." 

Whedon, to whom I have referred, the great Meth- 
odist commentator — Acts iii: "This power, we doubt not, 
still exists in the Church, were it faithfully exerted." 

Wesley — Mark vi, 13: " 'They anointed with oil many 
that were sick. 5 Which St. James gives as a general 
direction (v, 11, 15), adding those peremptory words, 
'And the Lord shall heal him.' He shall be restored 
to health, not by the natural efficacy of the oil, but by 
the supernatural blessing of God. And it seems this 
was the great standing means of healing desperate dis- 
eases in the Christian Church long before 'extreme unc- 



46 Modern Miracles. 

tion' was used or heard of, which bears scarce any re- 
semblance to it, the former being used as a means of 
health, the latter only when life is despaired of." 

Wesley — Mark xvi, 17: "It was not one faith by which 
St. Paul was saved, another by which he wrought mir- 
acles. Even at this day, in every believer, faith has a 
latent miraculous power (every effect of prayer being 
really miraculous), although in many, both because of 
their own littleness of faith, and because the world is 
unworthy, that power is not exerted. Miracles in the 
beginning were helps to faith; now also they are the 
object of it. At Leonberg, in the memory of our fathers, 
a cripple that could hardly move with crutches, while 
the dean was preaching on this very text, was, in a mo- 
ment, made whole." 

Bengel, on James v, 14, says: 

"What Christ had committed to the apostles was 
afterwards continued in the Church, even after the 
apostles' times, even longer than any other. It even 
seems to have been given by Cod that it might always 
remain in the Church as a specimen of the other gifts, 
just as the portion of manna betokened the ancient mir- 
acle." 

Dr. Adam Clarke, Matthew viii, 13: 

"God is the same in the present time that He was in 
ancient days; and miracles of healing may be wrought in 
our own bodies and souls, and on those of others, by the 
instrumentality of faith. But, alas! where is faith to 
be found?" 

Dr. Chalmers believed that the gift of healing was to 



Gkeat Men on Divine Healino. 47 

continue throughout all time. He says, on Mark 
xvi, 17, 18: 

"The great and common mistake with regard to the 
gifts is that they were intended merely to authenticate 
or to witness to the inspiration of the Canon of Scrip- 
ture, and that therefore, when the Canon was completed, 
they should cease; whereas they were intended to wit- 
ness to the exaltation of Christ as the Head of the body, 
the Church. Had the faith of the Church continued pure 
and full, these gifts of the Spirit would never have dis- 
appeared. There is no revocation by Christ of that 
word.' 7 

Joseph Benson, the Methodist commentator, was a 
firm believer in Divine healing. Mr. Benson gives the 
following account of the marvelous healing of his own 
daughter, Ann Mather, in answer to prayer. It is found 
in Mr. Benson's journal, and was published in the Lon- 
don Methodist Magazine: 

"October 4th. — This evening the Lord has shown us 
an extraordinary instance of His love and power. My 
dear Ann yet remained without any use of either her 
limbs, and indeed, without the least feeling of them, or 
ability to walk or step, or lay the least weight upon them, 
nor had she any use of them for upward of twelve months. 
I was very much afraid that the sinews would be con- 
tracted, and that she would lose the use of them for- 
ever. We prayed, however, incessantly that this might 
not be the case, but that it would please the Lord, for 
the sake of her three little children, to restore her. 
This day a part of my family and some of my pious 



48 Modern Miracles. 

friends went to take tea at her house, Mr. Mather bring- 
ing her down in his arms into the dining-room. After 
tea I spoke of the certainty of God's hearing the prayer 
of His faithful people, and repeated many of the prom- 
ises to that purpose. I also enlarged on Christ's being 
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, and still both 
able and willing to give relief to His afflicted people; 
that, though He had doubtless done many of His mir- 
acles of healing chiefly to prove Himself to be the Mes- 
siah, yet that He did not do them for that end only, 
but also to grant relief to human misery, out of his 
great compassion for suffering mankind; and that not 
a few of his other miracles of mercy he had wrought 
principally or only for this latter purpose, and that He 
was still full of compassion for the miserable. I then 
said, 'Ann, before we go to prayer, we will sing the 
hymn which was full of consolation to your mother/ and 
I gave out the words of the hymn beginning: 

' Thy arm, Lord, is not shortened now, 
It wants not now the power to save ; 
Still present with thy people, thou,' etc. 

"After singing, we then kneeled down to pray, and 
Ann took her infant child to give it the breast, that 
it might not disturb us with crying while we were en- 
gaged in prayer. I prayed first, and then Mr. McDon- 
ald, all the company joining fervently in our supplica- 
tions. We pleaded in prayer the Lord's promises, and 
especially that He has said that whatever two or three 
of His people should agree to ask, it should be done 
for them. (Matt, xviii, 19.) Immediately on our rising 
from our knees, Ann beckoned to the nurse to take the 



Gkeat Men on Divine Healing. 49 

child, and then instantly rose up, and said, 'I can walk; 
I feel I can/ and proceeded half over the room, when 
her husband, afraid she should fall, stepped to her, say- 
ing, 'My dear Ann, what are you about T 

"She put him off with her hands, saying > 'I do n't 
need you; I can walk alone/ and then walked three times 
over the floor, after which, going to a corner, she knelt 
down and said, '0 let us give God thanks V We kneeled 
down, and gave thanks, Ann continuing on her knees all 
the time, at least twenty minutes. She then came to 
me, and, with a flood of tears, threw her arms about 
my neck, and then did the same, first to one of her sis- 
ters, and to the other, and afterwards to Mrs. Dickenson, 
every one in the room shedding tears of gratitude and 
joy. She then desired her husband's brother to come 
up stairs, and when he entered the room she cried out, 
'Adam, I can walk/ and, to show him that she could, 
immediately walked over the floor and back again. 

"It was, indeed, the most affecting scene I ever wit- 
nessed in my life. She afterward, without any help, 
walked upstairs into her lodging-room, and, with her hus- 
band, kneeling down, joined in prayer and praise. 

"In conversation with her afterward, I learned from 
her the following particulars: That when she was brought 
into the dining-room, a little stool was put under her 
feet, but which she felt no more than if her feet had 
been dead. While we were singing the hymn, she con- 
ceived faith that the Lord would heal her; began to feel 
the stool, and pushed it away; then set her feet on the 
floor, and felt that; while we prayed, she felt a persua- 
sion she could walk, and felt inclined to rise up with the 
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50 MODEKN MlKACLES. 

child in her arms, but, thinking to do that would be 
thought rash, she delayed till we had done praying, and 
then immediately rose up, and walked, as above related." 
I am perfectly satisfied to stand in company with the 
foregoing illustrious names. It is a real comfort to 
know that we stand side by side and shoulder to shoulder 
with men of the most profound learning and the deepest 
piety, and that are acknowledged as having led in their 
day, and who are leading to-day the armies of God to 
the conquest of the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. 



CHAPTER VII. 

PHYSICAL HEALING IN THE PEIMITIVE 
CHURCH. 

Before bringing forward witnesses to modern mir- 
acles, we wish to call the attention of the reader to 
miracles in the primitive Church and succeeding ages. 

The history of the Church very clearly teaches that 
there was no abrupt cessation of miracles at the close 
of the Apostolic age. They continued right along for 
centuries after the Apostolic age; and if they continued 
for centuries after that age, why should they not con- 
tinue as long as the Church of Christ remains upon 
earth? 

The testimony of the Christian fathers is clear, over- 
whelming, and can not be gainsaid. Eusebius, of the 
third century, says: 

"Our Lord is wont to display, even to this day, to 
those whom He judges the right, some little portions of 
His miraculous power by manifested deeds." (V. ib. c. 5, 
p. 109.) 

In his notes on Tertullian, the author says: "The 
modern assumption, then, that miraculous gifts ceased 
with the last disciple on whom the apostles laid their 

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52 Modern Mikacles. 

hands, as it is an a priori theory, so it is contrary to all 
rules of evidence." (Tertullian, Volume I, page 58.) 

Mosheim tells us that the fathers in the second cen- 
tury "represent the Deity as having bestowed on not a 
few of His ministers and chosen servants such a meas- 
ure of His all-powerful Spirit that they could expel de- 
mons from the bodies of those that were possessed, cure 
diseases with a word, recall the dead to life, and do a 
variety of other things far beyond the reach of human 
power to accomplish." "That this was the case, and 
that those gifts of the Holy Spirit which are commonly 
termed miraculous were liberally imparted by Heaven 
to numbers of Christians, not only in this, but likewise 
in the succeeding age, and more especially to those of 
them who devoted themselves to the propagation of the 
gospel among the heathen, has, on the faith of the con- 
current testimony of the ancient fathers, been hitherto 
universally credited throughout the Christian world. 
Nor does it appear to me that, in our belief as to this, 
we can, with the least propriety, be said to have em- 
braced anything contrary to sound reason." (Mosheim's 
Commentary, Volume I, pages 278-9.) 

Justin Martyr says (Apolo. II, Chapter 6): "For num- 
berless demoniacs throughout the whole world and in 
your city, many of our Christian men, exorcising them 
in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under 
Pontius Pilate, have healed, and do heal, rendering help- 
less, and driving the possessing devils out of the men, 
though they could not be cured by all the other exor- 
cists and those who used incantations and drugs." 

Ireaenus says (Adv. Haer Book xi, 4): "Wherefore 



Physical Healing. 53 

also those who are in truth the disciples, receiving grace 
from Him, do in His name perform miracles so as to 
promote the welfare of others, according to the gift 
which each has received from Him." 

Then, after enumerating the various gifts, he con- 
tinues, "Others still Jieal the sick by laying their hands 
upon them, and they are made whole." 

Tertullian says (Ad. Scup. iv, 4): "For the clerk of 
one of them who was liable to be thrown upon the ground 
by an evil spirit was set free from his affliction, as was 
also the relative of another, and the little boy of a third. 
And how many men of rank, to say nothing of the com- 
mon people, have been delivered from devils and healed of 
disease." 

Origen says (Contra Celsum B. Ill, chapter 24) : "And 
some give evidence of their having received through 
their faith a marvelous power by the cures which they 
perform, invoking no other name over those who need 
their help than that of the God of all things and of 
Jesus, along with a mention of His history. For by these 
means we, too, have seen many persons freed from griev- 
ous calamities and from distractions of mind and mad- 
ness, and countless other ills which could be cured neither 
by men nor devils." 

Clement, in giving directions for visiting sick, says 
(Epis. C, xii): "Let them, therefore, with fasting and 
prayer, make their intercessions, and not with the well- 
arranged and fitly-ordered words of learning, hut as men 
who have received the gift of healing, confidently, to the 
glory of God" 

Dr. Waterland says, "The miraculous gifts continued 



64 Modern Miracles. 

through the third century at least/' (Creation and Ee- 
demption, page 50.) 

Dr. Marshall, the translator of Cyprian, says, "There 
are successive evidences of them down to the age of 
Constantine." 

With all these testimonies of the fathers, and many 
others we might add, it seems remarkably strange that 
men of learning will go on repeating the old hackneyed 
phrase, 'The age of miracles ended with the apostles.'" 

Dr. A. J. Gordon, in his "Ministry of Healing," page 
62, says: "The age of Constantine is a significant date 
at which to fix the termination of miracles; for almost 
all Church historians hold that there was a period when 
the simpler and purer forms of supernatural manifesta- 
tions ceased to he generally recognized, or were supple- 
mented by the gross and spurious type which character- 
ize the Church of the Middle Ages. And the era of 
Constantine's conversion confessedly marks a decided 
transition from a purer to a more degenerate and 
worldly Christianity. From this period on we find the 
Church ceasing to depend wholly on the Lord in heaven, 
and to rest in the patronage and support of earthly rul- 
ers, and ceasing to look for the coming and kingdom 
of Christ as the consummation of her hopes, and to 
exult in her present triumph and worldly splendor. 
Many of her preachers made bold to declare that the 
kingdom had come, and that the prophetic word, 'He 
shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river 
to the ends of the earth/ had been fulfilled." 

After Constantine a long night of moral darkness 
enveloped the world. The Church became corrupt, lost 



Physical Healing. 55 

her moral power, and, exulting in worldly luxury and 
splendor, supernatural gifts were seldom manifested in 
the Church. 

After a thousand years of moral night we find the 
Church emerging from the gloom, with new attire, and 
robed in the habiliments of purity, and exercising an 
apostolic faith, miraculous gifts are again frequently 
conferred upon her. 

It is a remarkable historic fact that just in the same 
ratio that the Church has become formal and worldly 
and unbelieving has she been deprived of supernatural 
gifts. And just in the same ratio that she has become 
pure and believing and unworldly have these gifts been 
imparted. 

Every great spiritual reformation, from the days of 
the apostles to the present time, has been attended by 
miracles of healing. This we shall show in the follow- 
ing chapter. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

THE GIFT OF HEALING KESTOKED TO THE 
CHUKCH AFTEE THE DAEK AGES. 

1. The Waldenses and Miracles. 

In the year 1170, Peter Waldo founded a denomina- 
tion in Italy known as the Waldenses. From a careful 
study of the Bible he conceived an ardent desire to 
bring the Church back to primitive and apostolic purity, 
gave all his possessions to the poor, began preaching, 
and soon had a large following of pure and sincere 
Christians. 

The denomination grew rapidly, and soon became a 
mighty moral power. It nourishes to-day, and still be- 
lieves in Divine healing. The following is the frank and 
simple confession of the Waldenses, found in Waldensia, 
page 25, and Waldensio Confessio, 1431: 

"Therefore, concerning this anointing of the sick, 
we hold it as an article of faith, and profess sincerely from 
the heart that sick persons, when they ask it, may law- 
fully be anointed with the anointing oil by one who joins 
with them in praying that it may be efficacious to the 
healing of the body according to the design and end and 
effect mentioned by the apostles; and we profess that 
such an anointing, performed according to the apostolic 
design and practice, will be healing and profitable." 

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The Gift of Healing Bestoked. 57 

They further say: "We confess that the anointing 
of the sick, performed according to the design, end, and 
purpose of the apostles, and according to their practice 
and power, of which St. Mark and James make men- 
tion, is lawful; and if any priest possessing the grace of 
healings had so anointed the sick, and they have recov- 
ered, we would exhort all that, when they are really ill, 
they omit not to receive that ordinance at their hands, 
and in no way despise it, because despisers of that, or 
of other ordinances, so far as they are ordained by Christ, 
are to be punished and corrected according to the rules 
of the evangelical law/' 

2. The Moravians' Testimony. 

The Moravians, or United Brethren, as they are 
sometimes called, were organized as a religious denomi- 
nation in Bohemia about the year 1467. They were a 
very pure and devoted people, following faithfully the 
example and teachings of Christ. They loathed the im- 
pure practices and corruptions of the papal Church. 

The Moravians are, historically and ecclesiastically, 
distinct from the society of the United Brethren in 
Christ, with whom they are often confounded. 

Rev. A. Bost has written what is regarded a correct 
and faithful history of the United Brethren. With re- 
gard to miraculous healing and other gifts of the Spirit, 
Bost says (page 17): "We are, indeed, well aware that, 
so far from its being possible to prove by Scripture, or 
by experience, that visions and dreams, the gift of mir- 
acles, healings, and other extraordinary gifts, have abso- 
lutely ceased in Christendom since the apostolic times, 



58 Modern Miracles. 

it is, on the contrary, proved, both by facts and by 
Scripture, that there may always be these gifts where 
there is faith, and that they will never be entirely de- 
tached from it." 

Count Zinzendorf, a bishop in the Moravian Church, 
says: "To believe against hope is the root of the gift 
of miracles, and I owe this testimony to our beloved 
Church, that apostolic powers are there manifested. We 
have had undeniable proofs thereof in the unequivocal 
discovery of things, persons, and circumstances, which 
could not humanly have been discovered, in the healing 
of maladies in themselves incurable — such as cancers and 
consumption — when the patient was in the agonies of death, 
etc., all by means of prayer or of a single word." (Idem, 
page 111.) 

In speaking of the miracles wrought in 1730, he says: 
"At this juncture various supernatural gifts were mani- 
fested in the Church, and miraculous cures were wrought. 
The brethren and sisters believed what the Savior had 
said respecting the efficacy of prayer; and when any ob- 
ject strongly interested them, they used to speak to Him 
about it, and to trust in Him as capable of all good. 
Then it was done unto them according to their faith. 
The count (Zinzendorf) rejoiced at it with all his heart, 
and silently praised the Savior, who thus willingly con- 
descended to what is poor and little. In this freedom 
of the brethren towards our Savior, Jesus Christ, he 
recognized a fruit of the Spirit, concerning which they 
ought on no account to make themselves uneasy, who- 
ever it might be, but rather to respect him. At the same 
time he did not want the brethren and sisters to make too 



The Gift of Healing Restored. 59 

much noise about these matters, and regard them as 
extraordinary; but when, for example, a brother was cured 
of disease, even of the worst hind, by a single word or by 
some prayer, he viewed this a very simple matter, calling 
to mind ever that saying of Scripture, that signs- were 
not for those who believed, but for those who believed 
not." 

Such are the teachings of the Moravians on Divine 
healing. The following is a thrilling illustration of the 
miraculous occurrences among the Moravians: 

"Jean de Watteville had a childlike confidence in our 
Savior's promise to hear His children's prayers. Of this 
he often had experience. One example we will here 
offer: A married sister became extremely ill in Herrnhut. 
The physician had given up all hopes, and her husband 
was plunged in grief. Watteville visited the patient, 
found her joyfully expecting her removal, and took his 
leave, after having encouraged her in this happy frame. 
It was at that time still the custom of unmarried breth- 
ren, on Sunday evening to go about, singing hymns be- 
fore the brethren's houses, with an instrumental accom- 
paniment. Watteville made them sing some appropriate 
hymns under the window of the sick sister, at the same 
time praying in his heart to the Lord that He would 
be pleased, if He thought good, to restore her to health. 
He conceived a hope of this so full of sweetness and faith 
that he sang, with confidence, these lines: 

' Sacred Cross, sacred Cross ! 

Where my Savior died for me, 
From my soul, redeemed from loss, 

Bursts a flame of love to Thee. 



60 MODBEN MlEACLES. 

When I reach my dying hour, 
Only let me speak Thy name , 

By its all prevailing power, 
Back my voice returns again.' 

"What was the astonishment of those who surrounded 
the bed of this dying sister when they saw her sit up, 
and join with a tone of animation in singing the last 
line: 

' Back my voice returns again.' 

"To his great amazement and delight he found her, 
on ascending to her chamber, quite well. She recovered 
perfectly; and not till thirty-five years after did he at- 
tend her earthly tabernacle to its final resting-place." 

3. Scotch Covenanters' Strong Faith. 

Touching the Scotch Covenanters of the seventeenth 
century, we quote the following from Dr. A. J. Gordon's 
"Ministry of Healing," page 70: "And now we come to 
the testimony of that most illustrious band of Christian 
worthies, the Scotch Covenanters. Illustrious, we said, 
and yet with a light altogether ancient, apostolic, and 
strange to our modern age. Let one read that book of 
thrilling religious adventure and heroic faith, 'The 
Scots Worthies,' and he will almost seem to be perus- 
ing the Acts of the Apostles reacted. Such sterling forti- 
tude! Such mighty prayers! Such conquests of preach- 
ing and intercession! Howie, its author, seems to have 
had in mind especially, in writing it, the rebuke it would 
bring to a later, faithless, and degenerate age, by show- 
ing, as he does in his Preface, how at the period of their 



The Gift of Healing Restoked. 61 

lives they brought Christ into our hands, and how quickly 
their offspring are gone out of the way, piping and danc- 
ing after a golden calf? Nor did he think such a luxuri- 
ous and unbelieving generation would be able to credit 
these mighty deeds of their fathers, for he continues: 
'Some may be ready to object that many things related 
in this collection smell too much of enthusiasm, and that 
other things are beyond all credit. But these we must 
suppose to be either quite ignorant of what the Lord did 
for our forefathers in former times, or else, in a great 
measure, destitute of the like gracious influences of the 
Spirit, by which they were actuated and sustained/ If 
we are inclined to discredit the marvels of Divine inter- 
position recorded in this book, we have to remember that 
the men who relate them, and of whom they are related, 
are historic characters of the Scottish Kirk — Knox, Wish- 
art, Livingston, Welch, Paden, and Craig. We never tire 
repeating the great and holy things which these men did 
in other fields of spiritual service. Who has not heard 
how John Livingston preached with such extraordinary 
demonstration of the Spirit that five hundred souls were 
quickened or converted under a single sermon? And 
what Christian has not had his spiritual indolence re- 
buked by reading of John Welch rising many times in the 
night to plead for his flock, and spending seven and eight 
hours a day in G-ethsemane intercessions for the Church 
and for souls? These things we have read and repeated 
without incredulity. But how few have read or dared 
to repeat the story of the same John Welch praying over 
the body of a young man who, after a long wasting sick- 
ness, 'has closed his eyes and expired to the apprehension 



62 MODEEN MlKAOLES. 

of all spectators; 7 how, in spite of the remonstrance of 
friends, he held on for three hours, twelve hours, twenty- 
five, thirty-six, forty-eight hours, and when it was insisted 
that the cold, dead body should be borne out to the burial, 
how he begged for an hour more, and how, at the end of 
that time, he called upon his friends and showed the dead 
young man restored to life again, to their great aston- 
ishment! All this is told with the utmost detail in the 
book of 'Scots Worthies/ " 

If we are startled to ask in amazement — as who will 
not be? — "Are such things possible in modern times?" 
we might better begin with the question, Has such pray- 
ing and resistless importunity with God ever been heard of 
in modern times? If we exercise such faith, the miracu- 
lous works will be easy enough to credit. Yet this is a 
specimen of the men who compose this extraordinary 
group of Christian heroes. 

"The wonders recorded of these are of every kind — 
marvelous of courage, of faith, of martyrdom, and of 
prophetic foresight. Here we read of the holy Robert 
Bruce, mighty in pulpit prayers, of whom it is affirmed 
that 'persons distracted, and those who were past recovery 
with failing sickness, were brought to him, and were, after 
prayer by him on their behalf, fully healed. We also 
read of Patrick Simpson, whose insane wife, from raving 
and blaspheming as with demoniacal possession, was so 
wonderfully healed by his importunate prayers that the 
event was found thus gratefully recorded upon some of 
the books of his library: 'Remember, my soul, and never 
forget the 16th of August, 1601, what consolation the 
Lord gave thee, and how He performed what He spoke 



The Gift of Healing Eestored. 63 

according to Zechariah, "Is not this a brand plucked out 
of the fire?" 

"Now when we reflect that these things are recorded 
by the pen of some of the holiest men the Church of God 
has ever seen, and recorded, too, as the experiences of 
their own ministry of faith and prayer, the fact must at 
least furnish food for reflection to those who continue to 
assert with such confident assurance that the age of mir- 
acles is past. Past it may be indeed, if the age of faith 
is past; for that we conceive to be the real question. 
It is not geography or chronology that determines the 
boundary-lines of the supernatural. It is apostolic men 
that make an apostolic age, not a certain date of Anno 
Domini. We are forever thinking to turn back the 
shadow certain degrees upon the dial, to bring again the 
age of miracles, forgetting that He who is 'without vari- 
ableness or shadow of turning' has said, 'If thou canst 
believe' — not if thou wast born in Palestine and within 
the early limits of the first Christian century — 'all things 
are possible to him that believeth.' 

"When by the stress of violent persecution, or by the 
sore discipline of reproach and rejection by the world, 
the old faith is revived, then we catch glimpses once more 
of the Apostolic age. 

"And such perhaps, beyond all others in modern times, 
was the age of the Covenanters. If we come to the 
Huguenots, those faithful followers of the Lamb, among 
generations that were so greedily and wantonly follow- 
ing the Dragon, we get glimpses of the same wonderful 
things. In the story of their suffering and obedience to 
the faith in the mountains of Cevennes, whither they had 



64 Modern Miracles. 

fled from their pursuers upon the revocation of the Edict 
of Nantes, we hear constant mention of the exercise of 
miraculous gifts. There were Divine healings and ex- 
traordinary actings of the Spirit in quickening and inspi- 
ration. They who in their exile carried their mechanical 
arts and inventions into England to the great blessing of 
the nation, carried here and there the lost arts of super- 
natural healing to the wonder of the Church of Christ." 

4. Martin Luther as a Miracle Worker. 

Martin Luther, the leader of the great Eeformation 
of the fifteenth century, was a strong believer in miracu- 
lous healing. 

It is said of Luther, "His prayers were victorious bat- 
tles." He was called, "The man who can have whatever 
he wishes of God." 

"His prayers for the healing of the body are among 
the strongest of any on record in modern times," so says 
an eminent writer. 

He repudiated in the strongest terms "the impudent 
Romish miracles which in his day put forth their claims 
on every side." His denunciation of these was in the 
strongest and most emphatic language. It is not strange, 
therefore, that some who have read these denunciations 
have concluded that Luther denied all supernatural in- 
terventions in modern times. But if we read carefully 
his history we shall find that he was a strong believer in 
supernatural gifts. 

In Seckendorf's "History of Lutheranism," page 133, 
we find the following words of Martin Luther: "How 
often has it happened, and still does, that devils have 



The Gift of Healing Kestoked. 65 

been driven out in the name of Christ; also, by calling on 
His name in prayer, that the sick have been healed ?" A 
yonng girl was taken to him possessed with' a devil. 
Luther laid his hands on her head, and repeated the 
words of the Savior, "He that believeth on Me, the works 
I do he shall do also, and greater works than these shall 
he do." Then he prayed, with others, that for Christ's 
sake the devil might be cast out. The prayer of faith 
was answered, the devil was cast out, and the girl entirely 
restored. When Philip Melanchthon was very sick, and 
his friends had all given him up to die, in answer to 
Luther's victorious prayer of faith he was restored and 
made every whit whole. The historian says: 

"Luther arrived and found Philip about to give up 
the ghost. His eyes were set; his consciousness was al- 
most gone; his speech had failed, and also his hearing; 
his face had fallen; he knew no one, and had ceased to 
take either solids or liquids. At this spectacle Luther is 
filled with the utmost consternation, and turning to his 
fellow-travelers says, 'Blessed Lord, how has the devil 
spoiled me of this instrument!' Then turning away 
towards the window he called most devoutly on God. 

"After this, taking the hand of Philip, and well know- 
ing what was the anxiety of his heart and conscience, he 
said: 'Be of good courage, Philip, thou shalt not die. 
Though God wanted not good reason to slay thee, yet 
He willeth not the death of a sinner, but that he may be 
converted and live. Wherefore, give not place to the 
spirit of grief, nor become the slayer of thyself, but trust 
in the Lord, who is able to kill and to make alive.' While 
he uttered these things Philip began, as it were to revive 
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66 Modern Miracles. 

and to breathe, and gradually recovering his strength is 
at last restored to health." 

In writing to friends afterwards about this matter, 
he says: 

"Philip is very well after such an illness, for it was 
greater than I had supposed. I found him dead, but, by 
an evident miracle of God, lie lives." 

Myconius says of himself: "Raised up in the year 1541 
by the mandates, prayers, and letter of the reverend 
Father Luther from death." 

Luther in his "Moral Truths of Christianity," page 
298, furnishes the following touching Myconius: 

"Myconius, the venerated superintendent of Gotha, 
was in the last stage of consumption, and already speech- 
less. Luther wrote to him that he must not die: 'May 
God not let me hear so long as I live that you are dead, but 
cause you to survive me. I pray this earnestly, and will 
have it granted, and my will will be granted herein. 
Amen/ 'I was so horrified/ said Myconius afterwards, 
'when I read what the good man had written, that it 
seemed to me as though I had heard Christ say, "Lazarus, 
come forth." ' And from that time Myconius was, as it 
were, kept from the grave by the power of Luther's 
prayers, and did not die till after Luther's death." 

5. Testimony of Richard Baxter. 

The testimony and experience of the saintly Eichard 
Baxter is very strong. After referring to many remark- 
able cures by the Reformers, he says: 

"But why need I fetch examples so far off? or to 
recite the multitude of them which Church history doth 



The Gift of Healing Kestoked. 67 

afford us? Is there ever a praying Christian here who 
knoweth what it is importunately to strive with God, 
and to plead His promises with Him believingly, that can 
not give in his experiences of most remarkable answers? 
I know men's atheism and infidelity will never want some- 
what to say against the most eminent providences, though 
they were miracles themselves. That nature which is so 
ignorant of God, and at emnity with Him, will not ac- 
knowledge Him in His clear discoveries to the world, 
but will ascribe all to fortune or nature, or some such 
idol, which, indeed, is nothing. But when mercies are 
granted in the very time of prayer, and that when to reason 
there is no hope, and that without the use or help of any 
other means or creature, yea, and perhaps many times over 
and over; is not this as plain as if God from heaven should 
say to us, I am fulfilling to thee the true word of My promise 
in Christ My Sonne? How many times have I known the 
prayer of faith to save the sick when all physicians have 
given them up as dead." 

6. The View of Dr. Horace Bushnell. 

Dr. Horace Bushnell, in his well-known work, "Na- 
ture and the Supernatural," declares that to deny present- 
day miracles would imperil his whole argment for the 
supernatural. He says in his letters, page 176-183: 
"There are signs of a revival of the primitive apostolic 
gifts; that Christians feeling after some way out of the 
dullness of second-hand faith, and the dryness of merely 
reasoned gospel, are longing for a kind of faith that shows 
God in living commerce with men such as He vouchsafed 
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just now be coming forth a more distinct and widely- 
attested dispensation of gifts and miracles than has been 
witnessed for centuries." 

Dr. Bushnell was a logician, with a cultured mind and 
massive intellect, and he looked at this question through 
the eyes of logic, as well as through the eyes of faith. 

The following is frOm the fourteenth chapter of his 
book, where he discusses the proposition, "Miracles and 
Supernatural Gifts not Discontinued." 

The case is given to Dr. ■ Bnshnell by a friend, and 
the DoctoT considers' the character and veracity of his 
friend such as to put his story beyond all question: 

"At length one of his children, whom he had with 
him, away from home, was taken ill with scarlet-fever. 
And now the question was," (I give his own words) "What 
was to be done? The Lord had healed my own sickness, 
but would He heal my son? I conferred with a brother 
in the Lord, who, having no faith in Christ's healing 
power, urged me to send instantly for the doctor, and I 
dispatched his groom on horseback to fetch him. Before 
the doctor arrived my mind was filled with revelation on 
the subject. I saw I had fallen into a snare by turning 
away from the Lord's healing hand to lean on medical 
skill. I felt grievously condemned in my conscience; a 
fear also fell on me that if I persevered in my unbelieving 
course my son would die, as his oldest brother had, The 
symptoms in both were precisely similar. The doctor ar- 
rived. My son, he said, was suffering from a scarlet- 
fever, and medicine should be_ sent immediately. While 
he stood prescribing, I resolved to withdraw the child 
and cast him on the Lord. And when he was gone, I 



The Gift of Healing Eestoked. 69 

called the nurse and told her to take the child into the 
nursery, and lay him on the bed. I then fell on my knees, 
confessed the sin I had committed against the Lord's 
healing power. I also prayed most earnestly that it would 
please my Heavenly Father to forgive my sin, and to 
show that He forgave it by causing the fever to be re- 
buked. I received a mighty conviction that my prayer 
was heard, and I arose and went to the nursery,, at the 
end of a long passage, to see what the Lord had done, and 
on opening the door, to my astonishment, the boy was 
sitting up in his bed, and on seeing me cried out, 'I am 
quite well, and want to have my dinner/. In an hour he 
was dressed, and well, and eating his dinner, and when 
the physic arrived it was cast out of the window. 

"Next morning the doctor returned, and on meeting 
me at the garden gate he said, 'I hope your son is no 
worse?' 'He is very well, I thank you,' said I in reply. 
'What can you mean?' rejoined the doctor. 'I will tell 
you; come in and sit down.' I then told him all that 
had occurred, at which he fairly gasped with surprise. 
'May I see your son?' he asked. ; 'Certainly, Doctor; but 
I see that you do not believe me?' We proceeded up- 
stairs, and my son was playing with his brother, on the 
floor. The doctor felt his pulse, and said, 'Yes, the fever 
is gone.' Finding also a fine, healthy surface on his 
tongue, he added, 'Yes, he is quite well; I suppose it was 
the crisis of his disease.' "■ 



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CHAPTER IX. 

DEVILS CAST OUT UNDER JOHN WESLEY. 

John" Wesley's Journal is a long record of the most 
wonderful events and amazing answers to prayer we ever 
read. Everybody, especially every Christian, should care- 
fully read this unique journal. Once begun, it is hard 
to stop perusing the charming narrative. It reads like 
romance. No one, it seems, can read this enchanting 
record of supernatural events, and then say that miracles 
were confined alone to apostolic days. 

Wesley was a man mighty in prayer, mighty in faith, 
and mighty in deeds. Time and again persons possessed 
with devils, just as they were in the days of our Savior, 
were brought to him, and in answer to prayer the demons 
were cast out, and the persons restored and made every 
whit whole. We give his own words. Reader, hear him, 
then draw your own conclusions: 

"We were going home, when one met us in the street 

and informed us that J — n H was fallen raving mad. 

It seems he had sat down to dinner, but had a mind first 
to end a sermon he had borrowed on 'Salvation by Faith/ 
In reading the last page he changed color, fell off his 
chair, and began screaming terribly, and beating himself 
against the ground. The neighbors were alarmed, and 

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Devils Cast Out Under John Wesley. 71 

flocked together to the house. Between one and two I 
came in, and found him on the floor, the room being full 
of people, whom his wife would have kept without; but 
he cried aloud, 'No; let them all come, let all the world 
see the just judgment of God/ Two or three men were 
holding him as well as they could. He immediately fixed 
his eyes upon me, and, stretching out his hand, cried: 
'Ay, this is he, who I said was a deceiver of the people. 
But God has overtaken me. I said it was all a delusion, 
but this is no delusion/ He then roared out: '0 thou 
devil! Thou cursed devil! Yea, thou legion of devils! 
Thou canst not stay! Christ will cast thee out. I know 
His work is begun. Tear me to pieces, if thou wilt; but 
thou canst not hurt me. 5 He then beat himself against 
the ground again, his breast heaving at the same time, as 
in the pangs of death, and great drops of sweat trickling 
down his face. We betook ourselves to prayer. His pangs 
ceased, and both his body and soul were set at liberty." 
(Journal, Volume I, pages 130, 131.) 

"At eleven I preached at Bearfield to about three 
thousand, on the spirit of nature, of bondage, and of 
adoption. Returning in the evening, I was exceedingly 
pressed to go back to a young woman in Kingswood. 
(The fact I nakedly relate, and leave every man to his 
own judgment of it.) I went. She was nineteen or twenty 
years old. I found her on the bed, two or three persons 
holding her. It was a terrible sight. Anguish, horror, 
and despair, above all description, appeared in her pale 
face. The thousand distortions of her whole body showed 
how the dogs of hell were gnawing her heart. The shrieks 
intermixed were scarce to be endured. But her stony 



72 Modern Miracles. 

eyes could not weep. She screamed out, as soon as words 
could find their way: 'I am damned, damned; lost forever. 
Sis days ago you might have helped me. But it is past. 
I am the devil's now. I have given myself to him. His 
I am. Him I must serve. With him I must go to hell. 
I can not he saved. I will he his. I will serve him. I 
must, I will, I will be damned/ She then began praying 
to the devil. We began, 

'Arm of the Lord, awake,' 

She immediately sunk down as asleep; but, as soon as we 
left off, broke out again, with inexpressible vehemence: 
'Stony heart, break! I am a warning to you. Break, 
break, poor, stony hearts! Will you not break? What 
can be done more for stony hearts? I am damned, that 
you may be saved. Now break, now break, poor, stony 
hearts! You need not be damned, though I must/ She 
then fixed her eyes on the corner of the ceiling, and said: 
'There he is; ay, there he is; come, good devil, come. 
Take me away. You said you would dash my brains out; 
come, do it quickly. I am yours. I will be yours. Come 
just now. Take me awa} r / We interrupted her by call- 
ing again upon God; on which she sunk down as before; 
and another young woman began to roar out as loud as 
she had done. My brother now came in, it being about 
nine o'clock. We continued in prayer till past eleven; 
when God in a moment spoke peace into the soul, first 
of the first tormented, and then of the other. And they 
both joined in singing praise to Him who had 'stilled the 
enemy and the avenger/ " (Journal, Volume I, page ll»l.) 
"I was sent for to one in Bristol, who was taker ill 



Devils Cast Out Under John Wesley. 73 

the evening before. (This fact, too, I will simply relate, 
so far as I was an ear or eye witness of it.) She lay on 
the ground furiously gnashing her teeth, and after a while 
roared aloud. It was not easy for three or four persons 
to hold her, especially when the name of Jesus was named. 
We prayed; the violence of her symptoms ceased, though 
without a complete deliverance. 

"In the evening, being sent for to her again, I was 
unwilling, indeed afraid, to go, thinking it would not 
avail, unless some who were strong in faith were to wrestle 
with God for her. I opened my Testament on those 
words, 'I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the 
earth/ I stood reproved, and went immediately. She 
began screaming before I came into the room; then broke 
out into a horrid laughter, mixed with blasphemy, griev- 
ous to hear. One who, from many circumstances, appre- 
hended a preternatural agent to be concerned in this, 
asking, 'How didst thou dare to enter into a Christian?' 
was answered: 'She is not a Christian. She is mine.' 
Q. 'Dost thou not tremble at the name of Jesus?' No 
words followed, but she shrunk back and trembled ex- 
ceedingly. Q. 'Art thou not increasing thy own damna- 
tion?' It was faintly answered, 'Ay, ay,' which was fol- 
lowed by fresh cursing and blaspheming. My brother 
coming in, she cried out: 'Preacher! Field-preacher! I 
do n't love field-preaching.' This was repeated two hours 
together, with spitting and all the expressions of strong 
aversion. We left her at twelve, but called again about 
noon Friday. And now it was that God showed he 
heareth prayer. All her pangs ceased in a moment; she 
was filled with peace, and knew that the son of wicked- 



74 Modern Miracles. 

ness was departed from her." (Journal, Volume I, 
page 162.) 

"After preaching in the evening, I was desired to 
visit a person who had been an eminent scoffer at all re- 
ligion; but was now, they said, 'in a strange way/ I 
found her in a strange way indeed; either raving mad, or 
possessed of the devil. The woman herself affirmed that 
the devil had appeared to her the day before; and, after 
talking some time, leapecl upon and grievously tormented 
her ever since. We prayed with her. Her agonies ceased. 
She fell asleep, and awaked in the morning calm and 
easy/' (Page 532.) 

Again says Mr. Wesley: 

"I now received a very strange account, from a man 
of sense, as well as integrity: 

"I asked M S many questions before she gave 

me any answer. At length, after much persuasion, she 
said: 'On old Michaelmas-day was three years I was sit- 
ting by myself at my father's with a Bible before me; 
and one whom I took to be my uncle came into my room, 
and sat down by me. He talked to me some time, till, 
not liking his discourse, I looked more carefully at him; 
he was dressed like my uncle; but I observed one of his 
feet was just like that of an ox. Then I was much fright- 
ened, and he began torturing me sadly, and told me he 
would torture me ten times more if I would not swear 
to kill my father, which at last I did. He said he would 
come again on that day four years, between half -hour past 
two and three o'clock. 

"I have several times since strove to write this down; 
but when I did the use of my hand was taken from me. 



Devils Cast Out Under John Wesley. 75 

I strove to speak it; but whenever I did, my speech was 
taken from me. And I am afraid I shall be tormented 
a deal more for what I have spoken now. Presently she 
fell into such a fit as was dreadful to look upon. One 
would have thought she would be torn in pieces. Several 
persons could scarce hold her; till, after a time, she sunk 
down as dead. Once she attempted to cut her own throat ; 
once to throw herself into Kosamond's pond; several times 
to strangle herself, which once or twice was with much 
difficulty prevented. ... I asked the physician that 
attended her, whether it was a natural disorder. He 
said, Tartly natural, partly diabolical.' We then judged 
there was no remedy but prayer, which was made for her, 
or with her, continually; though while any were praying 
with her she was tormented more than ever. . . . 

"About half-hour after ten, ten of us came together, 
as we had agreed the day before. We continued in prayer, 
one after another, till about twelve o'clock. One then 
said, 'I must go; I can stay no longer.' Another and an- 
other said the same, till we were on the point of breaking 
up. I said: 'What is this? Will you all give place to the 
devil? Are you still ignorant of Satan's devices? Shall 
we leave this poor soul in his hands?' Presently the cloud 
vanished away. We all saw the snare, and resolved to 
wrestle with God till we had the petition we asked of 
Him. 

"I then asked: 'Do you now believe Christ will save 
you? And have you a desire to pray to Him?' She an- 
swered, 'I have a little desire, but I want power to be- 
lieve/ We bid her keep asking for the power, and looking 
unto Jesus. I now looked at my watch and told her, 



76 MODEBN MlKACLES, 

f It is half -hour past two;, this is the time when the devil 
said he would come for you,' But, blessed he God J in- 
stead of a tormenter, he sent a Comforter. Jesus ap- 
peared to her soul, and rebuked the enemy, though some 
fear remained; but at three it was all gone, and she 
mightily rejoiced in the God of her salvation. It was a 
glorious sight. Her fierce countenance was changed, and 
she looked innocent as a child, and we all partook of the 
blessing; for Jesus filled our souls with a love which no 
tongue can express." (Journal, Volume II, pp. 160, 161.) 

"One was carried away in violent fits. I went to her 
after the service. She was strongly convulsed from head 
to foot, and shrieked out in a dreadful manner. The un- 
clean spirit did tear her indeed; but his reign was not 
long. In the morning both her soul and body were healed, 
and : she acknowledged both the justice and mercy of 
God." (Volume III, page 171.) 

Mr. Wesley did not believe that Christ's miracle-work- 
ing power had ever been withdrawn from the Church. 



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CHAPTER X. 

THE SICK HEALED UNDER JOHN WESLEY. 

Nor only were demoniacs delivered from the posses- 
sion of evil spirits in answer to prayer under John Wes- 
ley, but the sick were healed as well. We give Mr. 
Wesley's own testimony: 

"Dr. Hamilton brought with him Dr. Monro and Dr. 
Gregory. They satisfied me what my disorder was, and 
told me there was but one method of cure. Perhaps but 
one natural one; but I think God has more than one 
method of healing either the soul or the body." 

1 read over Mr. Else's ingenious 'Treatise on the 
Hydrocele.' He supposes the best cure is by a seton or a 
caustic ; but I am not inclined to try either of them. I 
know a Physician that has a shorter cure than either one 
or the other." (Volume II, pages 373 and 381.) 

"I was desired to visit one who had been eminently 
pious, but had now been confined to her bed for several 
months, and was utterly unable to raise herself up. She 
desired us to pray, that the chain might be broken. A 
few of us prayed in faith. Presently she rose up, dressed 
herself, came down stairs, and I believe had not any 
further complaint." (Volume II, page 499.) 

"I called upon Mr. Kingsford, a man of substance 
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78 MODEEN MlEACLES. 

as well as piety. He informed me: 'Seven years ago I so 
entirely lost the use of my ankles and knees that I could 
no more stand than a new-born child. Indeed, I could 
not lie in bed without a pillow laid between my legs, one 
of them being unable to bear the weight of the other. I 
could not move from place to place but on two crutches. 
All the advice I had profited me nothing. In this state 
I continued above six years. Last year I went on business 
to London, then to Bristol and Bath. At Bath I sent for 
a physician ; but before he came, as I sat reading the Bible, 
I thought, 'Asa sought to the physicians, and not to God; 
but God can do more for me than the physician.' Soon 
after I heard a noise in the street, and, rising up, found 
I could stand. Being much surprised, I walked several 
times about the room, then I walked into the Square, and 
afterward on the Bristol Boad, and from that time I 
have been perfectly well, having as full a use of all my 
limbs as I had seven years ago." (Volume II, page 682.) 
"An eminently pious woman, Mrs. Jones, at whose 
house I stopped, gave me a very strange account. Many 
years since she was much hurt in lying-in. She had vari- 
ous physicians, but still grew worse and worse, till per- 
ceiving herself to be no better, she left them off. She 
had a continual pain in her groin, with such a prolapsus 
uteri as soon confined her to her bed. There she lay 
two months, helpless and hopeless, till a thought one day 
came into her mind: 'Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst 
make me whole! Be it according to Thy will!' Immedi- 
ately the pain and the disorder ceased. Feeling herself 
well, she rose and dressed herself. Her husband coming 
in, and seeing her in tears, asked, 'Are those tears of seri- 



Sick Healed Undee John Wesley. 79 

ons joy?' She said, 'Of joy!' on which they wept to- 
gether. From that hour she felt no pain, but enjoyed 
perfect health. I think our Lord never wrought a plainer 
miracle, even in the days of his flesh/' (Volume II, 
page 748.) 

Mr. Wesley says, in his notes on Mark vi, 13, "And 
they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many 
that were sick, and healed tlwm:" a He shall be restored 
to health; not by the natural efficacy of the oil, but by 
the supernatural blessing of God. And it seems this was 
the great standing means of healing desperate diseases 
in the Christian Church." 

As Wesley preached the power of God often came upon 
the multitudes, and hundreds would fall under the mighty 
power, and then, in answer to prayer, their souls and 
bodies were healed. 

A physician became offended at the cries of many who 
fell under the power of God while Wesley preached. He 
attended his meeting, and a lady he knew fell under the 
power. "Great drops of sweat ran down her face, and 
all her bones shook. But when both her soul and tody 
were healed in a moment, he acknowledged the finger of 
God." (Journal, page 130.) 

At one time Mr. W x esley was sick, almost burning up 
with fever. He was not able to go out. Sunday night 
he invited the members to his room. He says: "Those 
whom the room would not contain stood without, while 
we all with one mouth sung praise to God. Mon. 4. — I 
walked in perfect health. Does not God both kill and 
make alive?" (Volume I, page 238.) 

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80 Modern Miracles. 

been speechless for some time; but almost as soon as we 
began to pray God restored her speech. She then wit- 
nessed a good confession indeed. . . . I expected to 
see her no more. But from that hour the fever left her, 
and in a few days she arose and walked, glorifying God." 
(Volume I, page 247.) 

"When I came home they told me the physician said 
he did not expect Mr. Meyrick would live till morning. 
I went to him, but his pulse was gone. He had been 
speechless and senseless for some time. A few of us im- 
mediately joined in prayer. (I relate the naked fact.)' 
Before we had done, his sense and speech returned. Now, 
he that will account for this by natural causes has my 
free leave; but I choose to say, 'This is the power of 
God/ " 

Three days after this, Mr. Wesley says: 

"The physician told me he could do no more; Mr. 
Meyrick could not live over the night. I went up and 
found them all crying about him; his legs being cold and 
(as it seemed) dead already. We all kneeled down and 
called upon God with strong cries and tears. He opened 
his eyes and called for me, and from that hour he con- 
tinued to recover his strength till he was restored to 
perfect health. I want to hear who will either disprove 
this fact, or philosophically account for it/ 5 (Volume I> 
page 275.) 

"Between Bath and Bristol I was earnestly desired 
to turn aside, and call at the house of a poor man, William 
Shalwood. I found him and his wife sick in one bed, and 
with small hopes of recovery of either. Yet (after prayer) 
I believed they would not die, but live, and declare the 



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loving kindness of the Lord. The next time I called he 
was sitting below stairs, and his wife able to go abroad." 
(Volume I, page 327.) 

"I explained in the evening the thirty-third chapter 
of Ezekiel, in applying which I was suddenly seized with 
such a pain in my side that I could not speak. I knew my 
remedy, and immediately kneeled down. In a moment 
the pain was gone." (Journal, Volume I, page 206.) 

"I found myself much out of order. I was obliged 
to lie down most of the day, being easy only in that po- 
sition. Yet in the evening my weakness was suspended 
while I was calling sinners to repentance. But at our 
love-feast which followed, beside the pain in my back 
and head, and the fever which still continued upon me, 
just as I began to pray I was seized with such a cough 
that I could hardly speak. At the same time came 
strangely to my mind, 'These signs shall follow them 
that believe/ I called on Jesus aloud to increase my 
faith. While I was speaking my pain vanished away; the 
fever left me, my bodily strength returned, and for many 
weeks I felt neither weakness nor pain. 'Unto Thee, 
Lord, do I give thanks/ " (Volume I, page 210.) 

"One was informing me of an eminent instance of 
the power of faith. 'Many years ago/ said she, 'I fell 
and sprained my ankle, so that I never expected it would 
be quite well. Seven years since, last September, I was 
coming home from preaching in a very dark night, and, 
stumbling over a piece of wood, fell with the whole weight 
of my body upon my lame foot. I thought, Lord, I 
shall not be able to hear Thy Word again for many weeks! 
Immediately a voice went through my heart. 'Name the 
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name of Christ, and thou shalt stand.' I leaped up, and 
stretched out my foot, and said, 'Lord Jesus Christ, I 
name Thy name; let me stand!' And my pain ceased, 
and I stood up, and my foot was as strong as ever." 
(Volume I, page 599.) 

"In the night my old disorder returned, and gradually 
increased, in spite of all medicines. Wednesday I was 
considering, I had not yet asked help of the Great Phy- 
sician; and resolved to delay no longer. In that hour I 
felt a change. I slept sound that night, and was well the 
next day." 

A month after this he says: 

"My disorder returned as violent as ever; but I re- 
garded it not while I was performing the service at 
Snowsfield in the morning, or in the afternoon at Spital- 
fields, till I went to the Lord's table in order to admin- 
ister. A thought then came into my mind, 'Why do I 
not apply to God in the beginning, rather than the end of 
an illness ?' I did so, and found immediate relief, so that 
I needed no further medicines." (Volume I, page 617.) 

"Thomas B , about three miles from Tyrrel's Pass, 

was at the point of death by a violent rupture. While 
they were praying for him in the society, he was at once 
restored to perfect health. He continued in health for 
several years, and in the knowledge and love of God; but 
no sooner did he return to folly, than his disorder re- 
turned, and in some months it put an end to his life. 
He died as stupid as an ox." (Volume I, page 630.) 

If we would be healed in body and kept healed, we 
must be true to God, and live and work for His glory 
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Sick Healed Under John Wesley. 83 

"About noon the next day I went out in a coach as 
far as the school in Kingswood, where one of the mis- 
tresses lay, as was believed, near death, having found no 
help from all the medicines she had taken. We deter- 
mined to try one remedy more; so we poured out our 
souls in prayer to God. From that hour she began to 
recover strength, and in a few days was out of danger." 
(Volume I, page 236.) 

The same wonderful events might be every-day occur- 
rences now, if we only had the faith that Wesley had. 



CHAPTER XL 

FURTHER ANSWERS TO PRAYER IN THE PHYS- 
ICAL REALM UNDER JOHN WESLEY. 

The resources of all heaven were at the command of 
Wesley. He had but to speak, and the elements were sub- 
servient to his will. How true, "All things are possible 
to him that believeth!" If our faith in God is unlimited, 
"Whatsoever we ask we receive." But listen to this man 
of God: 

"Just as I began to preach, the sun broke out, and 
shone exceeding hot on the side of my head. I found, if 
it continued, I should not be able to speak long, and 
lifted up my heart to God. In a minute or two it was 
covered with clouds, which continued till the service was 
over. Let any who please, call this chance. I call it an 
answer to prayer." 

"In an hour after we left Taunton, one of the chaise 
horses was on a sudden so lame that he could hardly 
set his foot to the ground. It being impossible to pro- 
cure any human help, I knew of no remedy but prayer. 
Immediately the lameness was gone, and he went just as 
he did before." (Volume II, page 553.) 

"Friday I got to Halifax, where Mr. Floyd lay; in a 
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high fever, almost dead for want of sleep. This was pre- 
vented by the violent pain in one of his feet, which was 
much swelled, and so sore it could not be touched. We 
joined in prayer that God would fulfill His Word, and give 
His beloved sleep. Presently the swelling, the soreness, 
the pain, were gone, and he had a good night's rest/' 
(Volume II, page 559.) 

"A decent woman, whom I never saw either be- 
fore or since, desired to speak with me, and said: 'I met 
you at Caladon. I had then a violent pain in my head for 
four weeks; but was fully persuaded I should be well 
if you would lay your hand on my cheek, which I begged 
you to do. From that moment I have been perfectly 
well/ If so, give God the glory." (Volume II, page 618.) 

"At three in the afternoon I preached at Heptonstall, 
on the brow of the mountain. The rain began almost as 
soon as I began to preach. I prayed that, if God saw 
best, it might be stayed till I had delivered His Word. 
It was so, and then began again." 

"In the afternoon 1 was obliged to go out of the 
Church, abundance of people not being able to get in. 
The rain ceased the moment I came out till I finished 
my discourse. How many proofs must we have that there 
is no petition too little, any more than too great, for God 
to grant?" (Volume I, page 577-8.) 

"In the afternoon both my fellow-traveler and I were 
fairly worn out. We betook ourselves to prayer, and re- 
ceived strength. Nor did we faint any more, till on 
Friday, 22d, we reached Plymouth Dock. And I found 
myself less weary then than on Monday, when I came to 
Colebrook." (Volume I, page 585.) 



86 Modern - Miracles. 

"At five in the evening about twelve hundred of the 
soicety met me at Spitalfields. I expected two to help 
me, but none came. I held out till between seven and 
eight. I was then scarce able to walk or speak; but I 
looked up and received strength. And when I returned 
home between ten and eleven, I was no more tired than 
at ten in the morning." (Volume I, page 624.) 

"When Mr. Shepherd and I left Smeton, my horse was 
so exceeding lame that I was afraid I must have lain by 
too. We could not discern what it was that was amiss; 
but yet he could scarce set his foot to the ground. By 
riding thus seven miles, I was thoroughly tired, and my 
head ached more than it had done for months. (What I 
here aver is the naked fact. Let every man account for 
it as he sees good.) I then thought, 'Can not God heal 
either man or beast, by any means, or without any?' Im- 
mediately my headache ceased, and my horse's lameness 
in the same instant. Nor did he halt any more that day 
or the next." (Volume VI, page 366.) 

"In the evening at the chapel my teeth pained me 
much. In coming home, Mr. Spear gave me an account 
of the rupture he had had for some years, which after 
the most eminent physicians had declared it incurable, 
was perfectly cured in a moment. I prayed with sub- 
mission to the will of God. My pain ceased, and re- 
turned no more." (Volume I, page 382.) 

"This evening also it rained at Hutton Rugby till 
seven, the hour of preaching; but God heard the prayer, 
and from the time I began we had only some scattering 
drops." (Volume I, page 103.) 



Fuethee Answees to Peatee. 87 

"Many of the congregation came from far. The rain 
was suspended from ten till evening, so that they had op- 
portunity both of coming and returning. This also was 
in answer to prayer; and is any such too little to be 
remembered?" (Volume I, page 632.) 



CHAPTER XII. 

EEV. GEOEGE MULLEE'S FIFTY THOUSAND 
ANSWEEED PEAYEES. 

The fame of George Miiller, who for years and years 
offered the prayer of faith, is world-wide. His remark- 
able career, and the millions of dollars received for his 
orphan asylums in answer to prayer, are enough to con- 
vince the most skeptical that the days of miracles have 
not passed. 

George Miiller was born in Prussia, September 27, 
1805. The first twenty years of his life were spent in 
sin. He went down to the lowest round on the ladder of 
vice. Sad indeed to say, yet nevertheless true, he would 
lie, steal, and drink. 

Then, under the mighty power of Divine grace, he 
was transformed, and became one of the noblest philan- 
thropists and most eminent saints the world has ever 
known. 

Shortly after his conversion he entered the ministry, 
and became pastor of a small Baptist Church at Teign- 
mouth, England, and then another equally small one at 
Bristol. 

He had not been preaching very long until he felt he 



Fifty Thousand Answered Prayers. 89 

ought not to take a stated salary from the Church, but 
should depend wholly on the voluntary contributions of 
the people for a support. 

At the end of October, 1830, he stated to his brethren 
the conclusion he had reached, and told them that from 
that time on he would not receive any regular salary. 

He says: "There was a box put up in the chapel, over 
which was written that whoever had a desire to do some- 
thing towards my support might put his offering in the 
box. At the same time it appeared to me right that 
henceforth I should ask no man, not even my beloved 
brethren and sisters, to help me, as I had done a few 
times according to their own request. For, unconsciously, 
I had thus again been led, in some measure, to trust in 
an arm of flesh, going to man instead of going to the 
Lord at once. To come to this conclusion before God 
required more grace than to give up my salary/' 

From that time on, to the close of his eventful life, 
he never asked any one, directly nor indirectly, for a 
penny for himself; and God, in answer to prayer, sup- 
plied all his needs. 

Early in his ministry he was impressed with the 
thought that he ought to establish a home for orphan 
children. 

He was also deeply impressed that this home should 
be established by simple faith in God. He resolved, there- 
fore, in the very beginning of the enterprise, to ask no 
man for a dollar, but to go directly to God for help. 

And from the time he began his work until his pure 
spirit went home to God, he never solicited of the pub- 
lic or of an individual a single penny. 



90 Modern' Miracles. 

As necessities arose, he simply laid his ease before 
God, and asked of Him all that he needed; and the sup- 
ply was always unfailing. 

In giving his reasons for establishing his homes, he 
says: "Through my pastoral labors, through my corre- 
spondence, and through brethren who visited Bristol, I 
had constantly cases brought before me, which proved 
that one of the especial things which the children of 
God needed in our day was to have their faith strengthened." 
This was his main object in building up his orphan 
homes. And was not his object accomplished? Has he 
not shown to an unbelieving world the omnipotence of 
faith? Has he not proved beyond a doubt that the re- 
sources of heaven and earth are at the command of the 
man who believes God? "He staked everything on 
prayer; and the five orphan homes on Ashley Down, built 
at a cost of four hundred thousand dollars, and provid- 
ing accommodations for two thousand children and a 
staff of workers, are the result. We may challenge un- 
believers to imitate Muller's exploits without prayer, and 
the God that answers by orphan homes, let Him be God." 

"Incredible, but true," is the judgment passed on the 
"Life of George Miiller" by a reviewer in one of the 
great London newspapers. The Spectator describes the 
story as "one of the most extraordinary things to be 
found in religious history." 

Dr. Sawtell, in his prefatory letter to Dr. Wayland, 
editor of the "Life of Miiller," says: "My duties have 
called me frequently to England, Scotland, and Ireland; 
but I do not remember of making one of these preach- 



[Fifty Thousand Answeeed Peayees. 91 

ing tours without hearing more or less of what many 
called f a standing miracle at Bristol/ 

"A man sheltering, feeding, clothing, educating, and 
making comfortable and happy hundreds of poor orphan 
children, with no funds of his own and no possible means 
of subsistence, save that which God sent him in answer to 
prayer. Of course, such facts, coming from undoubted 
authority, and oft-repeated, could not fail to arrest my 
attention and cause me to ponder deeply these things 
in my heart; and every new fact that came to my ears 
served only to increase an irrepressible desire to 'turn 
aside and see this great sight/ 

"I confess, on my first visit, I had reserved for my- 
self a wide margin for deductions and disappointment; 
but after a few days of careful investigation I left Bris- 
tol, exclaiming with the Queen of Sheba, 'The half had 
not been told me/ " 

Mr. Miiller did not discard medicine. When sick, 
he would employ a physician and take remedies. In his 
earlier ministry, however, he speaks of God's miracu- 
lously hearing prayer and healing the body. He says: 
"I repeatedly prayed with sick believers till they were 
restored. Unconditionally I asked the Lord for the 
blessing of bodily health, and almost always had the pe- 
tition granted. 

"In the same way, while in London, November, 1829, 
in answer to prayers, I was immediately restored from 
a bodily infirmity, under which I had been laboring for 
a long time, and which has never returned since/' 

He estimated that he had fifty thousand answers 



92 Modern Miracles. 

to his prayers during his life. The most of these were 
in the physical realm. 

During his life he received not less than seven million 
five hundred thousand dollars in direct answer to prayer. 
This vast sum of money received in answer to prayer, 
and the five orphan homes standing at Bristol to-day, are 
witnesses to the fact of modern miracles that no man 
for a moment can possibly deny or gainsay. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

DOROTHEA TRUDEL.* 

One of the many lovely and thoroughly Swiss hamlets 
that add such a charm to the scenery round Zurich is 
the beautiful village of Mannedorf. This little village 
lies quietly under the shadow of the hills on the left 
bank of the lake, and can be reached within an hour by 
the Zurich steamers. It is a mere cluster of a few 
houses, with a beautiful view in every direction over the 
blue water — a simple, out-of-the-way place, almost be- 
yond the reach of the villas that are sprinkled so plenti- 
fully over both sides of the lake. 

The fame of this little, out-of-the-way hamlet has 
become world-wide from the fact that it was the home 
of the Trudel family and the scene of so many remarkable 
miracles wrought in answer to "the prayer of faith." 
Dorothea Trudel was the eleventh child of an unbeliev- 
ing father, but of a spiritually-minded mother. Her 
father was very wicked — in fact, he was brutal — had a 
violent temper, and never tried to control it. On this 
account the mother suffered the severest trials; but she 
bore them all with meekness and Christian fortitude. 



*The facts recorded in this chapter are taken from " Dorothea Tru- 
del," by D. M. P., published by Morgan & Scott, London. 



94 Modern Miracles. 

She was schooled by this bitter experience into a life 
of faith and absolute dependence on God. "She looked 
to Him for food for her family when they must other- 
wise have starved; for deliverance, when they must other- 
wise have perished; for healing, when they must other- 
wise have died." 

She was so remarkable for her faith and consecration 
that, though living in the utmost obscurity and poverty, 
her biography has been placed among those of the illus- 
trious women of the ages.* 

Dorothea says of her mother: "Our mother was per- 
mitted, in a wonderful manner, to meet with events 
which passed all general experience. We were taught 
to acknowledge that the Lord alone is the true Phy- 
sician by the fact that no other was summoned when 
we or she herself were sick; and when I was attacked by 
smallpox, at four years old, and almost blind by it, while 
my brother, who was fourteen, was seized with epilepsy, 
our mother believed and trusted that the Lord would 
help; and in a short time we both recovered." 

Again Dorothea says of her mother: "Although I was 
the youngest of her children, I can remember number- 
less cases of answers to prayer which she related to us, 
and many we ourselves experienced. One very remark- 
able instance may here be recorded, relating to our 
mother's pious sister-in-law, who so faithfully stood 
by us: 

"Our aunt was so ill that every one believed her end 
was quickly approaching. She was quite prepared for 
this, but desired first to partake of the Lord's Supper. 

♦"Consecrated Women," London: Hodder & Stoughton 



DOKOTHEA TEUDEL. 95 

This was accomplished, and hardly a quarter of an hour 
afterwards everything earthly seemed to fade away from 
her, so that, as she herself told us, she could see into 
heaven. Yet she lay in full consciousness, and recog- 
nized all who came near. On the arrival of evening 
they brought light into the room, when she exclaimed: 
'What do you think? There is a brightness surround- 
ing us, such as I have never witnessed before; and I 
see crowds of blessed children. that you, too, could 
behold these things!' 

"Our mother thought to herself, when this foretaste 
of heaven is over, she will die. She sank on her knees, 
and earnestly entreated God to prolong the life of this 
loved one at least until our mother's eldest child should 
be able to be some support. At midnight the sick one 
suddenly turned towards my mother, saying, 'Now, I must 
return into this dark valley of death; I must stay awhile 
longer with you.' She lived fifteen years longer ancj 
until the eldest child was able to contribute her por- 
tion towards the maintenance of the family." 

In 1835, at the age of twenty-two, Dorothea was con- 
verted and led into the precious liberty of the children 
of God. From this time she was characterized by great 
earnestness, by singularly profound spiritual knowledge, 
and by a quiet, happy, and modest Christian spirit. 

She was a worker in flowers, and came, in time, to 
have workers under her; and when she was about thirty, 
some four or five of her workers fell sick. The sick- 
ness resisted all treatment, grew worse, and appeared, to 
be hopeless. She was a diligent and unselfish nurse, 
andj as a Christian, her anxiety for the work-people drove 



96 Modern Miracles. 

her to earnest prayer and careful consideration of the 
Scriptures. It was during this period, she says, that, 
like a sudden light, the well-known passage from the 
Epistle of James (v, 14, 15) flashed upon her. If med- 
ical skill is unavailing, was there not prayer? And could 
not the same Lord who chose to heal through medicines, 
also heal without them? There was a time when His 
healing power went forth directly; might it not be put 
forth directly still? The doctors were at fault; but 
was not faith in God perhaps more at fault? Agitated 
by these questions, she sought help in prayer; and then, 
kneeling by the bedside of these sick people, she prayed 
for them. They recovered; and the thought that first 
startled her became now the settled conviction of her life. 
A sickness broke out in the village ; and when it did break 
out, her help, tenderness, and Christian teaching were 
rarely absent. She sought the recovery of the patients 
in answer to prayer alone. Many got better; and, as 
the rumor spread, persons from the neighborhood came 
or sent, and her leisure time was fully occupied. 

Meanwhile she had resisted all solicitations to leave 
her ordinary work and establish a home for the afflicted. 
Her proper calling, she considered, was the one God had 
provided for her — that of a worker in flowers. Her nat- 
ural shyness and reserve made her shrink from publicity; 
but as increased numbers came and even besieged her 
doors, she was compelled to reconsider her position, and, 
at last, with much reluctance, to receive persons into her 
home. This was, at first, out of mere compassion, when 
the sick had been brought from a distance, and could 
find no proper shelter or care if she turned them away. 



BOKOTHEA TkUDEL. 97 

By degrees the one house grew into three, and her 
days were spent in superintendence and prayer. Pa- 
tients came from France and Germany, and even Great 
Britain. There came to be, in fact, a hospital at Manne- 
dorf . When the second house was filled, a great trial came 
to Dorothea. She describes it as follows: 

"But a storm was now to burst over the work; for, 
in 1856, when the second house was filled with invalids, 
and the Lord was working mightily, we were fined sixty 
francs, and were ordered to send away all the patients 
by a certain time. Though it was the most grievous 
day in my life, I obeyed the command; but the houses 
so hastily emptied filled as fast as ever with the blind, 
the lame, and deaf, for whom the Lord did great things. 
Evil spirits were driven out of some of the invalids by 
prayer, and the sufferers became instantly free. Many 
were delivered from the power of darkness which had 
been exercised over their minds, though less visible out- 
wardly, and received what we consider the highest and 
best blessing — that of being changed from wolves into 
lambs. 

"I had enemies, both known and unknown, in crowds; 
and thickly-scattered lies and slanders were no pleasant 
portion. I write this with the feeling that whoever can 
not bear, without emotion, even the blackest lies and 
slanders, has yet to experience something of the peace 
which is like an ocean without bounds." 

Dorothea was fined by the court on the plea that 
it was illegal to heal without the help of a physician. 

Her biographer says: "During the course of the trial 
authenticated cures were brought forward, it is said, to the 
7 



98 Modern Miracles. 

number of some hundreds. There was one of a stiff knee 
that had been treated in vain by the best physicians in 
France, Germany, and Switzerland; one of an elderly man 
who could not walk, and had also been given up by the 
physicians, but who soon dispensed with his crutches; 
a man came with a burned foot, and the surgeons said 
it was a case of Either amputation or death,' and he also 
was cured. One of the leading physicians of Wurtem- 
berg testifies, to the cure of a hopeless patient of his 
own. Another remained six weeks, and says he saw all 
kinds of sickness healed. Cancer and fever have been 
treated with success; epilepsy and insanity more fre- 
quently than any other form of disease." 

When the court decided that it was illegal to heal 
without the help of a physician, and Miss Trudel was 
heavily fined for so doing, on the advice of her lawyer, 
she appealed to the higher court. The case was carried 
from court to court, and at last — in November, 1861 — 
the judgments of the lower court were unanimously re- 
versed, all the costs thrown on the prosecutors, and 
Dorothea was permitted to go on in her old way. With 
songs of praise and thanksgiving, and with renewed 
gladness, she resumed her work; and every day she was 
permitted to see the sick healed in answer to the prayer 
of faith. In 1862, typhus fever broke out at Mannedorf. 
Dorothea was attacked, and gradually sank. She had 
a presentiment from the first that she should not sur- 
vive. Her work was done, and God took her home. 

Some time before her death, Mr. Zellar came to her 
for healing. He was afflicted with a disease of the skin. 



DOKOTHEA TkUDEL. 99 

She told him that when he got a cleaner soul he would 
have a cleaner skin; and her words came true. 

When Dorothea died, her mantle fell on Zellar, under 
whose faith and prayer the work more than doubled in 
a few years, In 1881 there were seven houses filled 
with patients. 

The story of the marvelous cures wrought there in 
answer to the simple prayer of faith has gone to the 
ends of the earth. 

Dorothea would often say: "People need not come 
to Mannedorf to get well in body and mind. Let them 
unreservedly believe God's holy promises, and they will 
experience the same blessed results in any part of the 
world." So we believe. 



LofC, 



CHAPTER XIV. 

BISHOP SIMPSON HEALED IN ANSWER TO 
PRAYER.— BISHOP BOWMAN'S TESTIMONY. 

In 1875, Bishop Thomas Bowman presided at the 
Nebraska Conference, held in Omaha. On Sabbath morn- 
ing the Bishop preached on "The Tyndall Prayer-test." 
Among other things, he related the following: 

"Prayer is a question to be determined just like any 
other question of fact, not as a question of science, but 
as a question of fact; and the history of the world is full 
of evidences that God does not only hear and answer 
prayer for spiritual, but for physical blessings. In the 
fall of 1858, whilst visiting Indiana, I was at an Annual 
Conference where Bishop Janes presided. We received 
a telegram that Bishop Simpson was about dying. Said 
Bishop Janes, 'Let us spend a few moments in earnest 
prayer for the recovery of Bishop Simpson.' We kneeled 
to pray. William Taylor, the great California Street 
preacher, was called to pray; and such a prayer I never 
heard since. The impression seized upon me irresistibly, 
Bishop Simpson will not die. I rose from my knees 
perfectly quiet. Said I, 'Bishop Simpson will not die/ 
'Why do you think so?' 'Because I have had an irre- 
sistible impression made upon my mind during this 
prayer/ Another said, 'I have the same impression/ 

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Testimonies. 101 

We passed it along from bench to bench until we found 
that a very large proportion of the Conference had the 
same impression. I made a minute of the time of day, 
and when I next saw Bishop Simpson, he was attending 
to his daily labor. I inquired of the Bishop, 'How did 
you recover from your sickness?' He replied, 'I can not 
tell/ 'What did your physician say?' 'He said it was 
a miracle/ I then said to the Bishop, 'Give me the 
time and circumstances under which the change oc- 
curred/ He fixed upon the day and the very hour, 
making allowance for the distance — a thousand miles 
away — that the Methodist preachers were engaged in 
prayer at this Conference, the physician left his room and 
said to his wife, 'It is useless to do anything further; 
the Bishop must die/ In about an hour he returned and 
started back, inquiring, 'What have you done?' 'Noth- 
ing/ was the reply. 'He is recovering rapidly/ said 
the physician; 'a change has occurred in the disease 
within the last hour beyond anything I have ever seen. 
The crisis is past, and the Bishop will recover/ And 
he did. 

"Who shall tell me that God, who creates medicines 
to heal diseases, and has given power and infinite variety 
to remedial influences, did not, by some secret power 
not made known to us, which perhaps never will be, touch 
the spring of life somewhere in Bishop Simpson's body? 
He does that through remedial agents again and again. 
The tendency of death is destroyed, and in many cases 
health is restored by simple remedies in the hands of 
physicians. Surely it is not unreasonable for us to sup- 
pose that the God who created all this power may have 



102 Modern Miracles. 

reserved a little that he can bring to bear occasionally 
under circumstances like these." 

Bishop Bowman's Testimony. 

"I stand here to-day as an evidence in my own char- 
acter and history of the fact that God hears and an- 
swers prayer when it requires an influence and a power 
above the power of nature to bring about the re- 
sult. In my conversion God heard my prayer, and a re- 
sult was achieved that could not, by any possibility, have 
been achieved by any ordinary natural power — a power 
that revolutionized my whole character, redeeming, re- 
generating, and making me a new man. I remember 
well, a week afterward, when my besetting sin came 
back upon me — my fiery temper — and when, in the hour 
of my distress, I went to God in earnest, fervent prayer, 
pleading for the victory in this direction, how, after an 
hour's fearful struggle, I arose from my knees with as 
clear a consciousness that victory was mine as that the 
bright sun shone on me that blessed day; and from that 
day to this I have had that victory. This was gained, 
not by the exercise of my will, which I had put forth a 
thousand times, and failed; not by any philosophy or 
skill that might have been brought about by years of 
experience and habit, but by the simple power of God in 
answer to prayer. I could occupy hours in relating in- 
cidents similar to those I have given, where God has 
demonstrated in the physical, intellectual, and moral 
power that He has reserved to Himself the right and the 
power to answer prayer. 

"Some years ago (and I have this incident from 



Testimonies. 103 

the mouth of a wicked man) a camp-meeting was 
held in Southern Indiana. It rained nearly all the 
time of the meeting. Father Haven, a man mighty 
in prayer, rose to preach. Just as he announced his 
text, it thundered, and the congregation seemed to 
be restless and alarmed. The old hero instantly said, 
'Let us engage a moment in prayer/ He prayed that 
God would allow the storm to pass by, and not dis- 
turb them. After having pleaded for a few moments, 
he said, 'Friends, keep your seats; it will not rain one 
drop here to-day/ He commenced to preach, and it 
thundered again. He repeated his assurance; and thus 
it continued until the storm-cloud was almost over the 
encampment. It divided north and south, and passed 
about a quarter of a mile on either side of them, re- 
united again, and passed on; and not one solitary drop of 
rain fell on that encampment. You may tell me that 
might have been; perhaps such a thing has occurred in 
the history of the world; but how did it happen that this 
man of God should have this positive assurance that God 
had heard and answered, and that the result would be 
as it was? The God who made the heavens and the 
earth surely can control the stormy tempest by some 
secret power that philosophy has not discovered. I ask 
Tyndall, How do tornadoes come over the land? 'By 
some secret power that we have not discovered/ would 
be the reply. There may be a thousand other secret 
powers reserved in the universe controlled by the Al- 
mighty which could be brought to bear by law just as 
much as in the other case. Do not tell me that God does 
not hear prayer." 



CHAPTER XV, 

GOD'S AEM BEVEALED. 

Eyesight Instantly Bestored by Prayer. Testi- 
mony of Mrs. E. M. Whittemore, Founder of " The 
Door of Hope," 102 E. 61st Street, New York.* 

The wonderful narrative which we print below shows 
that the age of miracles is not past. 

Mrs. E. M. Whittemore, whose eyes were miraculously 
healed, is one of the best-known mission workers in 
America. In 1890 she founded a "Door of Hope" home 
for girls of the street in New York City. It was a de- 
cided success. Later she organized the "Door of Hope 
Union/' an association composed of forty-five rescue mis- 
sion homes in the various cities. 

Mrs. Whittemore's career is romantic and providen- 
tial. She was reared in a home of luxury. For many 
years she was a devotee of fashion. Her life was a gay 
whirl of dinners, receptions, and balls. One day she 
fell downstairs, breaking the lower joint of her spine. 
For twelve years she was an invalid. In answer to prayer 
her health was restored. As a thank-offering to God, 
she determined to devote the remainder of her life to 

*From The Barn's Horn of March 4, 1899. 

104 



God's Arm Eevealed. 105 

rescuing the girls of the streets. For the past fourteen 
years Mrs. Whittemore has toiled early and late, day 
and night, for her fallen sisters. She has spoken in all 
the leading cities, and, as stated above, has organized 
the Door of Hope Union. 

"Owing to a malformation in the left eye, rendering 
it almost useless, my right one, through constant service 
for years, finally became so exhausted and overtaxed 
that glasses were resorted to. Though changed in 
strength about fifteen times, the trouble was by no means 
diminished, but, on the contrary, intensified and accom- 
panied with added pains and distress. Being repeatedly 
assured by the oculists that no actual disease existed, 
as they expressed it, 'a misfortune from birth/ which 
compelled the right eye to do double duty, until it had 
simply given out. Thus it was I endeavored, by their 
advice, to secure what mechanical assistance could be 
obtained through the lenses prescribed. what a lit- 
tle thing can be used in keeping one from obtaining from 
the mighty hand of God that which He always grants, 
when fully trusted, even after a wearied experience try- 
ing other ways than wholly committing the matter to 
Him! 

"Without much diversity of opinion, four specialists 
thoroughly diagnosed my case. Dr. Barnes insisted that 
I should never be without glasses, and only use my eyes 
at certain intervals. Dr. Nois, however, informed me 
that he had his doubts whether my sight, so impaired, 
would ever return, and that possibly the little possessed 
might be lost altogether. Dr. Norton gave more encour- 
agement, and caused me to hope that, through proper 



106 MODEKtf MlEACLES. 

lenses, I might keep right on with the work that had 
grown so dear to me, using my eyes without any serious 
inconvenience. What the experience was as the months 
went into years can not be justly described, to say noth- 
ing of the terrible and oft-repeated attacks of headache 
brought on by trying to use those glasses. This went 
on and on until last winter, when Dr. Norton finally in- 
formed me that the most powerful lenses had been re- 
sorted to, and if no relief was gained, only an operation 
was left; but to this I resolved never to submit. 

"During the past summer the distress at times was 
almost unbearable. Dr. Elliott was asked to examine 
my eyes, which he did most carefully. He told me frankly 
that in all his practice he never remembered seeing such 
a peculiar condition as was found in what was always 
termed 'my good eye/ as it appeared to be nothing more 
than a sort of a dull gray mass, without apparent vitality. 
After considering for awhile, as the examination pro- 
ceeded, he said, he felt almost sure degeneration had be- 
gun to set in, perfectly corroborating, as it were, the 
opinion of Dr. Nois, even without being aware of what 
he had informed me nearly a year previous. 

"The outlook was by no means encouraging, to say 
the least; and from that day I rapidly grew worse, with 
increasing headaches and stinging pains through the eyes, 
if used even in moderation. This continued until the 
7th of November, 1898, when, in Bath, Maine, holding 
a few services, I was urgently requested to go and speak 
to the Bible-school students at Lisbon Falls, not many 
miles distant. Owing to some previous engagements, I 
positively refused to go; so the matter was dropped. 



God's Aem Eevealed. 107 

But upon retiring that night, it suddenly came to me 
I had not asked the Lord's thought about it. Immedi- 
ately every seeming obstacle was removed, as he reminded 
me that ample time was left for telegraphing, etc., so 
the arrangements could be easily made. After a few 
moments of further waiting upon Him, the conviction 
was strong that the invitation was to be accepted, ac- 
companied with real delight, that I had not only His 
orders, but sanction to go, though why those former 
plans were to be changed, or what was the special im- 
port of my going, I was utterly unable to perceive. Is 
it not, however, far better to walk in the paths of obe- 
dience, consciously within, hearing, as of old, the Mas- 
ter whispering, 'What I do thou knowest not now, but 
thou shalt know hereafter' (John xiii, 7), than to carry 
out any previous decisions, even though they might seem- 
ingly mean much for God? 

"Never can I forget that visit! Upon my arrival, 
after lunch and some moments spent alone with God, 
for special preparation in the giving of His message, 
I stood before a hundred or more students. After speak- 
ing at some length, the holy hush of God's presence be- 
came so manifest that I requested that, before the clos- 
ing prayer, we might wait a little in stillness, adding, 
'Probably God is going to speak to us even more defi- 
nitely/ little imagining what was about to transpire. 

"At first the silence which followed was almost op- 
pressive, when distinctly, down in my heart, I heard, 
'Now! now! now!' Not being at all visionary, but de- 
cidedly practical, I confess that I was as greatly startled 
as if a human voice had broken that stillness. 



108 Modern Miracles. 

"Trembling somewhat, I breathed forth to God these 
words: 'What, Lord! Art Thou going to speak to me? 7 
Again, more solemnly, and with greater emphasis, that 
word 'Now!' was repeated three times in succession. 

"My agitation increased ; but on staying my mind upon 
the Lord, I could not but reason: 'Now is God's appointed 
time. But what for?' The question was no sooner asked 
than answered, 'Your eyes/ I could hardly take in the 
significance of it all; for no reference had been made 
to my eyes, either in public or in private, and I had 
long since, as stated before, somehow set aside the mat- 
ter, claiming no ground of hope for things to be differ- 
ent. Then, as I was just beginning to rehearse all former 
thoughts regarding them, a more decided 'NOW!' just 
once, vibrated through my entire being. I felt impressed 
it was God's last call, and, laying aside every preconceived 
idea, reverently did I silently resolve, warrant or no war- 
rant, He was able if need be, to perform a miracle — for 
my desire was sight alone for His glory — and trust Him 
implicitly I would. . . . 

"Instantly was I reminded of the services to be held 
that evening; and the thought came that possibly it 
would be as well not to lay aside my glasses too suddenly, 
being very costly. The idea was rejected at once as a 
temptation of the devil, to be prepared if God's power 
should fail. 

"Recalling this later, I could not but feel confident 
that, if I had failed at this critical test, my sight would 
undoubtedly have been withheld, and perhaps forever. 
But power was granted to quickly overcome the temp- 
tation. 



God's Akm Eevealed. 109 

"Such an experience I had rarely entered into before, 
and so was enabled with promptness to burn the bridge 
as I walked over it, by immediately removing these al- 
most constant companions, and placing them into the 
hands of Mr. Sanford (the founder of the Bible-school); 
and, thank God! those glasses are still in his possession 
to-day. They are, as he states, a constant reminder of 
God's faithfulness. 

"Upon receiving them, he asked if he understood 
correctly that by this act I wished all present to wait 
at once upon the Lord in my behalf. Eeplying in the 
affirmative, it was not five minutes later, when, in the 
unity of faith, we made our request known unto God, be- 
fore something most definite and yet hard to describe took 
place in both eyes, accompanied with such an uplifting of 
Christ in my heart that, when I arose, I can truthfully 
affirm it was in the fullness of joy; and with sincere grati- 
tude did I walk off that platform into Mrs. Sanford's room, 
without an uncertain step, and with clear sight; and from 
that moment I have never seen double. It has seemed like 
in a new world at times, the change has been so com- 



"The next morning, meeting the Eev. Leroy Blake, 
of New London (my summer pastor), in the cars, I in- 
formed him of what the Lord had done. He was deeply 
interested as he listened to the recital; for he well 
knew the sad state those eyes were in, and of the real 
suffering in consequence. 

"When through, he said: 'Praise God! Praise God! 
But let me see how much you can use your eyes/ Glanc- 
ing down at the ticket on my lap, I answered, pointing 



110 Modern Miracles. 

to the small sub-notice in the corner, in minion type, 
'I can read that as well as the rest/ 

" ''Now, be careful. You do n't say you can read that?' 
said he, taking it in his hand, and holding it at arm's- 
length, turning it first to the right and then to the 
left, while trying to read it through his own glasses. I 
laughingly took it from him, replying, 'Yes, I can, but 
will hold it, of course, at natural sight/ and then read 
three or four lines to him aloud. 

"After listening, he spoke, with some emotion, again, 
Traise God!' adding, 'I really had a purpose in asking 
you to do this; for I intended telling of what God had 
wrought, but with it, wished, for the glory of Him, to 
be able to state that with my eyes I saw you read, and 
heard what you read. It is truly wonderful!' 

"Upon my return home, an accumulation of mail 
awaited my attention, and almost incessantly did I work 
with my own pen, at the same time running through other 
matter with my stenographer, without the slightest sen- 
sation of even weariness, and, besides this, being obliged 
to use my eyes almost constantly ever since for over two 
months, no distracting pains have caused my head dis- 
tress. Each day my sight, if anything, is clearer. Now, 
finally, and most wonderful, to the praise of God, let me 
not forget to add: 

"I can see with my left eye as distinctly now as with the 
right one; and I earnestly request that all who read this 
testimony may lift up their hearts at least once in my 
behalf, that both eyes may ever be kept for the Master's 
service, and proving ever as an encouragement to others, 
that I may trust God under and through all emergencies ; 
'for He is faithful that promised.' (Heb. x, 23.)" 



CHAPTER XVI. 

MAEY EEED, THE NOTED MISSION AEY, HEALED 
OF LEPEOSY IN ANSWEE TO PEAYEE. 

Some time ago the remarkable story of the healing of 
Mary Eeed, missionary to the lepers of India, was told 
in many of the periodicals of our own and other lands. 

We take the following from The Christian and Mis- 
sionary Alliance of February 24, 1900: 

"Eeferring to his late visit to India, Eev. F. B. Meyer 
says: 'One of the pleasantest episodes in my recent visit 
to India was the privilege of enjoying the hospitality of 
Miss Thoburn, of Lucknow. One of her guests was Miss 
Mary Eeed, with whom I had more than one delightful 
talk. She told me her wonderful story, how she first 
discovered she was afflicted with the painful and loath- 
some disease of leprosy, tore herself away from those 
who loved her without trusting herself to say good-bye, 
and finally consecrating her life to the relief of the lepers 
of India/ This is the story in a word, of the beginning 
of the most remarkable missionary record of the past 
decade. The results of that life are summed up in the 
statement that through her labors one hundred and 
twenty-three lepers have been admitted into the Church 
of Christ, and that through her unceasing and success- 
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112 Modern Miracles. 

ful efforts they have been clothed, fed, and sheltered, 
and a large and valuable property has been acquired, and 
one of the noblest asylums in the world for this suffer- 
ing class has been erected. Still more delightful is it to 
state that after years of patient submission to this ter- 
rible disease she herself has been led, during the past 
year, to look to God for her personal healing. 

"In referring to the healing of the dreadful malady, 
she says: 'Who can fail to recognize the hand of God stay- 
ing the malady in answer to the prayers of a multitude of 
Christian hearts bound by the blessed tie of Christian 
love? 

" 'Most humbly do I praise and thank God our Fa- 
ther and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, the Fountain 
of life and health and peace, for marvelously improved 
health! "He hath heard the voice of my [our] suppli- 
cations. . . . My heart trusted in Him, and I am 
helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with 
my song will I praise Him." ' 

"In writing to her physician, she says: 'I know I have 
Divine health, given in answer to prayer, the many 
prayers of a multitude of hearts, and "that ? s enough for 
me!" How I wish you could hear the echo of that testi- 
mony! I sing it over and over; and just here I clip it 
out of my book, and pass it on to you. Sing it again, 
and send it back to me, please. 

" 'I believe there is a stage of experience with many 
who have been healed by the power of God similar to 
that spiritual experience of "sinning and repenting." 
Many get healed, first of one thing, and then another, 
but never get "health." Getting healed, they only get 



Healed of Lepeosy. 113 

"bits" of health, and getting forgiven only "bits" of sal- 
vation. But, getting Christ, we get the very foundation 
of life. That is the blessed secret/ Such was her own 
statement." 

The Bombay Guardian adds the following paragraph 
about Miss Reed's remarkable healing: 

"A Missionary Healed. 

"Miss Reed, a missionary, at home in America on fur- 
lough, found herself afflicted with symptoms of a strange 
disease. Miss Reed had worked for several years in the 
Methodist Episcopal Mission in Cawnpore, and during 
a furlough in the Himalayas had become deeply inter- 
ested in a leper colony at Pithogarh. Now, when she 
found these strange appearances on her own body, she 
at once thought of leprosy, and, on consulting some phy- 
sicians, who were specialists, they confirmed her fears. 
She speedily made arrangements, through some trusted 
friends, for her return to India, where she was placed 
in charge of that same leper colony on the Himalayan 
hills, with no prospect before her other than that of a 
lingering life of suffering and a painful death. 

"We rejoice to find the following item with regard 
to the cure of her complaint in the Kau-kubi-Hind : 

" 'It has for some time been the opinion of those 
near Miss Reed, the missionary lady who has such a 
large place in the sympathies of the Christian world be- 
cause of having in some way contracted leprosy while 
engaged in mission work in India, that she was being 
gradually healed. No medicine has been used, as the 
disease is universally acknowledged incurable; but Miss 
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114 MODEKN MlEACLES. 

Eeed has from the first believed that the leprosy would 
be stayed, and she would be cured. A couple of weeks 
ago she left her work in Chandag, and came to the plains 
to undergo examinations at the hands of competent phy- 
sicians. Brigadier-Surgeon Condone and the Civil Sur- 
geon of Cawnpore pronounced her practically cured. 
Miss Eeed's many friends will rejoice in her signal re- 
covery. Inasmuch as her case had been previously in- 
vestigated by a number of experts and physicians of high 
repute, all of whom agreed as to the nature of the mal- 
ady, there can be no doubt that she has been healed of 
an incurable disease. We usually consider the age of 
miracles as past; but to those who believe in an active 
Providence this staying of the disease will surely be ac- 
cepted as an instance of Divine interposition/ " 



CHAPTER XVII. 

TESTIMONIES OF PEKSONS WELL KNOWN TO 
THE AUTHOR 

Annie M. Prescott Healed. 
When a young man, my aunt, Annie M. Prescott, 
used to spend her summer vacations at my father's home 
in New Hampshire. She was a lovely Christian charac- 
ter. Her visits to our home were hailed with delight, 
and her influence upon us was angelic. I can scarcely 
think of her now without weeping. She was the victim 
of that fearful disease, consumption; and every visit she 
made to our home found her weaker, till finally all hope 
left us. Our family physician gave her up, and all said 
she must die. But my aunt was cheerful and hopeful 
all the time, and felt her work was not done, although 
she said nothing to us about it at the time. She heard 
of Dr. Cullis and his Consumptives' Home in Boston. 
She went to see him, and, by the aid of Dr. Cullis and 
others, she was enabled to offer the prayer of faith, 
and was completely healed, and became a well woman. 
Before she could exercise faith for her healing, she prom- 
ised God, if He would heal her, she would devote her 
life to His service. That promise she faithfully fulfilled. 
She remained several years with Dr. Cullis, working in 
his Consumptives' Home without salary. 

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116 Modem Miracles. 

Then she went with Mr. Moody to Northfield, Mass., 
and engaged with him in his Northfield work. She re- 
mained with Mr. Moody until her work was done, and 
she passed sweetly to her heavenly home. When on 
her dying-bed, and unable to speak, she wrote out 
Isaiah liv, 10, as her dying testimony. This clear and 
unmistakable case of Divine healing made a lasting im- 
pression on my mind, and I have believed ever since that 
God is not only able, but does, in this the nineteenth 
century, heal the body in answer to the prayer of faith. 

Written for the glory of God. 

W. H. Prescott, 
320 S. 12th St., Lincoln, Neb. Conference Evangelist. 

W. S. Johnson Healed of Rheumatism. 

Being aware of the need of brevity, I hastily give 
you, at your request, and for the glory of God, the ac- 
count of my healing over five years ago. 

For some months prior to the time of which I speak, 
I had suffered much from rheumatism in my right hip, 
leg, and foot — so much, and so acutely, that my foot 
had become partially paralyzed. I used the best reme- 
dies I knew of, but with only partial success. Some- 
times better, sometimes a relapse, until the spring of 
1894. Having heard of a little meeting to be held in 
a little grove, in a yard about Twenty-second and T 
Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska, and having for many years 
a great fondness for meeting with the Lord's little ones, 
and feeling better that beautiful Sunday afternoon, I 
got into my buggy, and went to the meeting. 



Testimonies of Well-known Persons. 117 

The subject turned largely upon Divine healing, ac- 
cording to apostolic teaching and practice — a subject I 
had never given much thought, and knew little about. 
Yet, as presented that day, I became convinced that it 
was reasonable and Scriptural, and that healing was for 
me. In fact, I had not a shadow of doubt about it, and 
then and there so testified, and was, with some others, 
anointed as directed in James v. I also testified at that 
time that God had given me the assurance that I should 
be healed; in fact, that the decree had already gone 
forth. However, I went home, not feeling any bet- 
ter, and that night was much worse, and everything 
seemed to indicate that I was self-deceived; but I held 
on, still believing that "He doeth it." Yet in my suf- 
fering I began to reason this way: The Lord is going to 
heal me, I am assured of that; but it may be He expects 
me to use the means at hand, and that I might be cul- 
pable if I did not use them. Thus reasoning, I concluded 
to use the remedies as before. It had not previously 
been unpleasant to take, but now it was very nauseating, 
and I loathed it so that I was compelled to desist. This 
I regarded as indicating that I should not use remedies, 
but take Him, and Him only, for my Physician; and 
so I said, Live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish, 
I ? 11 throw away remedies, and take Him for the healing 
of my body from rheumatism, as I had long before taken 
him for the cleansing of my heart from the defilement 
of sin. This was the day after the meeting and anoint- 
ing. I retired early, slept soundly all night, rose early 
next morning, and found / had not a trace of rheumatism 
about me; not only free from pain, but renewed, invigor- 



118 MODEEN MlEACLES. 

ated, and revived every way. I have never had any return 
of rheumatism since. Glory to His name! 

I am realizing from day to day "what a wonderful 
Savior is Jesus, my Jesus; what a wonderful Savior is 
Jesus, my Lord!" Also the truth of His Word (Ps. 
ciii, 3), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth 
all thy diseases," for all of which I expect to praise Him 
evermore. Bless His holy name! 

W. S. Johnson. 

Lincoln, Neb., November 18, 1899. 



Testimony of Rev. J. W. Royse. 

Cedae Bluffs, Neb., January 7, 1901. 

Deae Beothee Davis, — Yours received, and in com- 
pliance with your request will say: While pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Sutton, Neb., I was 
greatly afflicted with enlarged veins in my right leg. I 
consulted Drs. Clark and Yhradenburg, and they told 
me I could not be cured, and the only relief was silk 
hose or rubber bandage. I used the rubber bandage for 
more than a year, removing it at night, and replacing 
it in the morning. 

I could not walk any distance without pain. One 
night, after I had retired, my leg pained me so I could 
not sleep. At midnight a voice seemed to say to me, 
"If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall 
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you/' I 
asked the Lord to cure me. I continued in prayer for 
more than an hour. The answer came: I was free from 
pain. I fell asleep, praising the Lord. I dressed myself 



Testimonies of Well-known Peksons. 119 

the next morning, and put the rubber bandage in a 
drawer, where it has remained for five years. 

Sincerely yours, J. W. Koyse. 

Testimony of W. Robert B. Alexander. 

Saved, sanctified, healed, and preserved by the power 
of God! Hallelujah! 

I praise God for the new birth, for an experience 
so real that there is no doubt about it. I have tried 
Him and proved Him. 

Christ said, "The spirit of truth shall testify of Me; 
and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been 
with Me from the beginning." (John xv, 26, 27.) 

"He that believeth on the Son of God hath the wit- 
ness in himself." (1 John v, 10.) I have the witness 
NOW. Praise God! 

Some people do not want to hear us tell of Divine 
healing. Well, God heals me now, and I am His wit- 
ness. Glory! 

But He saved me before He healed me. About seven- 
teen years after God converted me — on October 10, 
1898 — He sanctified me wholly. While sweetly rejoicing 
in the abundance of His love, as never before, my at- 
tention was directed to some literature on Divine heal- 
ing. I began to read the Bible with that thought be- 
fore me, and was soon convinced that the healing of 
the body was for me. 

I read in Exodus xv, 26, "I am the Lord that heal- 
eth thee." I saw clearly that God was addressing His 
children. I then began to examine myself by the Word, 



120 MODEEN - MlKACLES. 

to see if I was eligible and had a just claim on God's 
promises. I proved to myself that I was His child. God 
bless the Bible! "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is 
the Christ is born of God." (1 John v, 1.) "For with 
the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with 
the mouth confession is made unto salvation." 
(Eom. x, 10.) 

Having established my heirship to God's kingdom 
and all He has, I read, "No good thing will He with- 
hold from them that walk uprightly." (Ps. lxxxiv, 11.) 

Again I read, "He healeth all thy diseases." (Ps. 
ciii, 3.) I believed these promises, and Christ made me 
whole, body and soul. 

"Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders 
of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing 
him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer 
of faith shall save the sick." (James v, 14, 15.) 

When I read this promise, God put it in my heart 
to close my place of business, and attend Divine healing 
services, which were held at my church, January 10, 
1899, by two evangelists from the East. 

I was anointed for varicocele. I had been suffering 
from this trouble for twenty-six years. I had taken 
gallons of medicine, and had bought many electric belts, 
paying as high as thirteen dollars for belts. I had con- 
tracted for medical treatments, costing me from twelve 
to seventy-five dollars; but no cure came. I wore an 
appliance at the time I was anointed. I was anointed on 
Tuesday, but the witness to my healing did not mani- 
fest itself till Thursday — two days later. After my 
anointing I returned to my work, and at bed-time, con- 



Testimonies of Well-known Peesons. 121 

trary to my usual custom, removed from my body the 
appliance, which I have not seen since that night, nearly 
two years ago. I went on with my work, claiming the 
promise as I labored. I was standing at my post, work- 
ing on a customer, when I was healed. I am a barber. 
I must confess I was frightened. It seemed as though 
a strong man had taken hold of both ends of the cords, 
and gave them a quick jerk that straightened them out. 
I heard them pop. At first a cold sweat came over me, 
and then a hot sweat. It was a trying time. As soon 
as I had an opportunity, I went out and examined my- 
self, to see what had broken. My fear was turned to 
joy when I discovered that what had, for twenty-six years, 
been a great lump and an aggravating annoyance had 
become as smooth as the palm of the hand. Well, I 
laughed, and I shouted Hosannahs to God, the G-od of 
my salvation. 

Having proved the Lord, I determined to get rid of 
an aggravating case of chronic catarrh of about twenty 
years' standing. So on the last Sunday evening in Janu- 
ary following my first healing, I excused myself from 
going with my wife to meeting, that I might be alone 
with God for a season of prayer for the taking away of 
that pest. I was successful. Just as I was about to 
kneel in prayer, a voice said to me, "Blow!" I obeyed, 
and blew from my head a substance about the constitu- 
ency of the white of an egg, with a liberal amount of 
sulphur mixed with it. The odor was terrible. My 
handkerchief was of the ordinary gentleman's size, and 
was completely saturated with the foul stuff. My head 
was healed. My wife was frightened when she saw the 



122 MODEEN MlEACLES. 

handkerchief; but I told her what God had done for 
me, and we both glorified God. 

I also had kidney trouble, almost "Bright's Disease." 
Many times, in stooping down or raising up, pains would 
shoot through the small of my back, that it seemed 
they would cut me in two. God healed me of this dis- 
ease. Hallelujah! No drugs for me. 

W. Robert B. Alexander. 

329 South Eleventh Street, Lincoln, Neb. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

HEALED OF CANCER. 

Testimony of Mrs. G-. Rolle. 
Tottenville, N. Y., January 9, 1901. 
Me. H. T. Davis: 

Dear Sir, — Inclosed yon will find my testimony, which 
I hope will not be too late for your book. 

In His name. Mrs. G. Rolle. 

"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and 
forever." (Heb. xiii, 8.) 

On the twenty-eighth day of January, 1876, God, for 
Christ's sake, spoke peace to my soul, and set the joy- 
bells ringing. 

After twenty years of Christian life, while attend- 
ing a camp-meeting, God led me to make a consecration 
of myself, and surrendering my all to Him, I received 
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, assuring me that I was 
"accepted in the beloved." (Eph. i, 6.) 

Christ became very real to me in the keen sense of 
a personal Savior. The Holy Spirit soon began to show 
me the provision made for me in the atonement. "Him- 
self took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." ( Matt, 
viii, 17.) 

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124 MODEKK MlKACLES. 

I read a little book written by Mr. Simpson, called 
"Friday-meeting Talks on Divine Healing." There I 
saw that Jesus could heal to-day the same as when upon 
earth. For ten years, Satan tried hard to blind my eyes 
to this blessed fact. He suggested in many ways what 
it would mean for me to give up all human helps. I 
had been a sufferer for many years, having a complication 
of diseases, also subject to severe headaches, and was 
intensely nervous. The physicians prescribed all kinds 
of medicines, which I took for many years, and they 
said it would be necessary for me to continue taking 
them for the remainder of my life, as I never could be 
cured of some of these physical troubles. This would 
have discouraged me very much had I not really thought 
I was suffering the will of God, and that His grace would 
be sufficient for me. In 1895 I went to the hospital, 
and had a fibrous tumor removed. Soon after this it 
was discovered that my condition was not much im- 
proved by the operation. In five months afterwards I 
had another removed. After submitting to this opera- 
tion, I was again disappointed to find that the trouble 
was not yet entirely removed. After suffering until 
March, it was decided that there must be another opera- 
tion performed, this being the third one in less than 
a year. After this the disease did seem better for a 
time. However, I was very weak and nervous. The 
physicians were very kind, doing all in their power to 
help me. 

In 1897 the physicians discovered that my trouble 
had returned; but now it had developed in another part 
of my body; and this time it was pronounced cancer. 



Healed of Cancer. 125 

An operation was performed, and terrible prostration fol- 
lowed, unlike any of the others, on account of my weak 
condition. 

The Holy Spirit continued to reveal through the 
Word that Divine healing was my privilege. After being 
under deep conviction for weeks, I sought the Lord in 
prayer, to know His will concerning me. He answered 
me, saying, "All things are possible to him that believ- 
eth." Then He gave me two promises on which to 
stand and trust. "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, 
and show thee great and mighty things, which thou 
knowest not." (Jer. xxxiii, 3.) 

"Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abun- 
dantly above all that we ask or think, according to the 
power that worketh in us." (Eph. iii, 20.) 

The Lord enabled me to surrender my body, as I had 
my soul, and to step out on His promises. 

October 16, 1898, at the Gospel Tabernacle, New 
York, I was anointed in the name of the Lord, took 
Christ for my body, proved Christ in me. (Col. i, 27.) 
I knew that Christ had touched my body. I felt His 
power pass through me, and I said, "It is done." All 
my old troubles left me. I was enabled to do my own 
work in my home, also to take up Church work which 
had been laid aside on account of my ill-health. I praised 
Him with my whole heart; for the work done was so 
marvelous. Christ shall have all the honor and all the 
glory. It was indeed a new world to me. To be without 
pain, and free from a weak body, was a new life to me. 

Some five months after, God severely tested my faith. 
I was sorely tried. Satan tried to frighten me with his 



126 Modern Miracles. 

evil suggestions; but my refuge was in Christ, who had 
become my All and in all. 

I consulted two physicians to know my condition. 
Both pronounced it cancer, and advised another opera- 
tion immediately. This time God was my only Phy- 
sician, and He assured me through His Word, "Thou 
shalt not die, but live, and declare the words of the 
Lord." (Ps. cxviii, 17.) 

God proved to me that a cancer in His sight was 
no more than a teardrop in my eye. So I proved that 
nothing is too hard for the Lord. No man can work 
like Him. 

I held on to Christ, and waited until He should reveal 
to me that the work was done. Satan tried to get me 
into Doubting Castle, but God answered me again with 
another promise, "I, the Lord, have spoken: it will 
come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back." 
(Ezek. xxiv, 14.) 

Now the time to stand came. The growth remained 
six months, but God kept speaking to me in such sweet 
assurance: "Thou shalt not die. I, the Lord, have 
spoken it." 

All fear left me, and praises filled my soul. I went 
on with my work in faith, having the assurance that 
the work was done. At the end of six months entire de- 
liverance from the cancer was given, and I was healed by 
the mighty power of God. I was well, not only by faith, 
but by sight, and have been ever since. 

The physician who treated me for three years ad- 
mitted that the Lord had done for me what he, nor no 
other" man, ever could have done. 



Healed of Cancek. 127 

Twelve months have passed since that glorious heal- 
ing, and I am a living witness to-day. Thus the Lord 
healeth all our diseases. Our bodies are the temples 
of the Holy Ghost. His life, flowing through our bod- 
ies, can cleanse the impure blood, even of a cancer, the 
same as He can cleanse the heart from all sin. This 
is God's will concerning each one of His children. Liv- 
ing His life in me, I can truly say, to the honor and 
glory of God, I enjoy good health. I do want to praise 
Him for leading me into the light, and only ask that 
God may use this simple testimony to help some child 
of God to see his privilege in Christ. Jesus is just as 
able to heal the body as He was when He walked this 
earth. 

"My God shall supply all your need according to His 
riches in glory by Jesus Christ" (Phil, iv, 19) — all we 
need for both body, soul, and spirit. 

May the dear, blessed Holy Spirit convey this blessed 
truth to every suffering child of God who may be seek- 
ing light on Divine healing is the prayer of your sister 
in Christ Jesus. 

Any one wishing to know more about my healing, I 
shall be glad to correspond with them. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

THE MAKVELOUS EXPERIENCE OE DE. FINIS E. 
YOAKUM, OF LOS ANGELES, CAL. 

Dk. Yoakum is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and a practicing physician in Los Angeles, Cal. 
We have had some very pleasant correspondence with the 
doctor. 

The following letter and testimony from him speak 
for themselves: 

Highland Paek, Los Angeles, Cal. 
January 19, 1901. 

Deae Beothee Davis, — I gladly send you my experi- 
ence of the Lord's healing me, almost six years ago. 

I have just met an old saint — Mother Mead, 1203 
Marion Street, Los Angeles. She is a member of the 
Church, and is past eighty-four years old, has recently 
made a trip of five hundred miles alone, has not taken 
a drop of medicine or used a poultice for over fifty-one 
years; has trusted God for health, been healed over 
one hundred times, been given up to die by seventeen 
doctors, and then the Lord spake through His Spirit, 
saying, "Get up and walk;" and then, when a Methodist 
preacher laid hands on and anointed her with oil, she 
arose in Jesus' name. 

I am very busy in my profession of medicine. I see 
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many healed. Consumption, rheumatism, the lame, 
cancer, Bright's disease, all diseases. I have seen the 
devil cast out of one man. We have had a meeting on 
Mondays for one year. For eight months I never was 
present, but one time, but some one was healed, and from 
one to six sinners saved. One Monday we prayed and 
anointed over one hundred sick people, and all claimed 
healing. One consumptive boy, in the last stage — so three 
doctors said, and said he could live but a few weeks — 
healed instantly. He never coughed any more, and two 
weeks afterwards I could find no symptoms of the plague 
about his lungs. That same day an old lady, who had 
used crutches for years, threw them away, walked down- 
stairs, and out to her coach, well. 

I was called as a physician to see five Christians who 
had been violently poisoned by eating pork sausages, 
and I knew nothing but God could save them. They 
were vomiting and purging, heart-beat was very weak, 
and cold sweat standing in drops all over their bodies. 
I cried out, "Captain" — he was Captain in American 
Volunteers — "the Bible says, 'If they shall drink any 
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.' " "0," said he, 
"I forgot that." Five or six friends and myself fell on 
our faces before the Author of that promise, and in 
less than ten minutes they were down on the street 
testifying to Christ's power to heal the body. 

God bless you in writing your book! 

Your brother in Jesus, F. E. Yoakum. 

Here is the doctor's testimony: 

"I am forty-five years of age. I have been practic- 
ing medicine for twenty-three years. My present place 
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130 Modern Miracles. 

of residence is Los Angeles. I am in good health, strong, 
and able to do more work than in any former period of 
my life. 

"In 1894 I was practicing medicine in Denver, Colo. 
Eiding on a Broadway car in that city, July 18th, on 
my way to organize a Class-leaders' Association of the 
Methodist Church, I got off, at 8 P. M., at the crossing 
of Cedar Street. A drunken man was driving a horse 
furiously down the street at the time, and when I was 
fifteen feet away from the street-car, the shaft of his 
buggy struck my body two inches to the left of my spine, 
breaking the seventh and eighth ribs, and hurling me 
forward. The concussion was so great that the horse 
was thrown backward on his haunches. 

"The blow I received sent me to the ground, breath- 
less and speechless. Two carloads of people, one on 
either side of Cedar Street, saw the rundown, and the 
conductors and passengers of both cars came hastily 
to my assistance. When I saw them coming, there flashed 
into my mind the Scripture, 'The angel of the Lord en- 
campeth round about them that fear Him/ I had per- 
fect peace and calmness in my soul. 

"I was lifted upon my feet by the two conductors, 
one of whom pressed his hand upon my breast over my 
heart, while the other sustained my back. By this means 
I was enabled to breathe, but not to speak. I was, as 
you may imagine, in great pain. 

"They carried me into a near grocery-store, and phy- 
sicians were sent for. In an hour the ambulance arrived. 
I had not then recovered speech. The doctors placed me 
carefully in the ambulance, two of them riding with me, 



A Marvelous Experience. 131 

their hands resting upon my breast. I was driven five 
miles to my home. 

"The street-car company's physician had hastily vis- 
ited my home, and had informed my wife of the accident, 
and that the doctor's corpse, most likely, was coming; 
that it had been telephoned to him that I was fatally 
injured. 

"When I arrived home, I was still unable to speak, 
and could only breathe intermittently. The pain on 
breathing was indescribable. The doctors bandaged, 
plastered, poulticed, and filled me. At the end of eight 
days they thought I was greatly improved, and permit- 
ted me to sit up. I was dressed, and went into the par- 
lor. The exertion caused me to sneeze violently. This 
brought back the same sensations as I had experienced 
eight days before: I became breathless and speechless. 

"The doctors concluded I was dying. They thought 
that hemorrhage had taken place in the pleural cavity, 
which contains the heart and lungs. Their opinion was, 
a first hemorrhage had taken place when I was struck 
by the shaft of the buggy, and now a second hemorrhage 
had set in. They decided that the only thing that could 
be done was to cut out a part of the seventh rib. This 
was done, seven or eight doctors being present, the chief 
surgeon operating. Two gallons of blood were let. 
After the operation was over, the surgeon cleaned his 
instruments, remarking to my wife, 'The doctor is dead;' 
and left the house. Two days afterward he met the 
attending physician and said he was watching the papers 
to see when Dr. Yoakum's funeral would take place. 
The physician replied, 'That crazy Yoakum says he is 



13& Modern Miracles. ,-, 

not going to die; but we know he will/ I was many 
times given up for dead. My friends expected my de- 
cease hourly. The wound the surgeon made kept open 
about four months, discharging a foul pus, sometimes 
having the odor of a rotten egg. 

"I was impressed to come to Southern California 
against the wishes of my friends and relatives. Here 
the wound closed up externally, and my health continued 
to decline, fever never leaving me for eight months. 
My side grew larger and larger, filling with this foul pus. 

"Now, to go back a little. The night before the sur- 
geon performed the operation upon me, I had a vision. 
I had the same vision twice before — once when I was 
converted, twenty-seven years previously, and the sec- 
ond time when I was sanctified, which was four years 
before the accident. In my vision I saw the Lord, walk- 
ing in the cool of the trees. His words to me were: 'My 
brother, be of good cheer. I will renew you; you will 
not die. Do not fear; only trust Me, as you did when 
you were converted and sanctified." The words of the 
vision have never been erased from my memory. Amid 
the discouragement of thirty-two doctors pronouncing 
my case hopeless and death certain, I never lost cour- 
age, but believed I would be healed. 

"I could not sleep except under morphine, and every 
breath caused me great pain in my body. It was im- 
possible for me to climb three steps without resting. It 
seemed the grave was opening before me, and my wife, 
nurse, and friends expected every day the end to come. 

"Two months before my physical healing, the doc- 
tors said my left kidney was overlarge, and that death 



A Marvelous Experience. 133 

from blood-poisoning was imminent. The pain extend- 
ing from my left kidney to my heart was so great that, 
in my loneliness, with my wife sick in an adjoining room, 
in my utter helplessness and utter necessity, I cried to 
the Father to 'take me home/ that the pain was greater 
than I could bear. While lying there, waiting for Him 
to answer my prayer, a great warm hand was slipped 
under my left side, and firmly pressed on my back; and 
from that moment I knew that my kidney trouble was 
healed, and I have never been troubled since with any 
ailment of that kind. 

"Two months after this I heard of the Christian Al- 
liance, and that they prayed in Jesus' name for the sick. 
Mr. Mullens, of our city, telegraphed to my brothers 
in Texas that, if they wanted to see me alive, they must 
come immediately, as prostration had set in. Next day 
I told my wife, if she and the nurse would dress me, and 
put me on the car, while they prayed at home, I would 
go where they prayed in Jesus' name for the sick. 

"I went down to 107 J North Main Street, Los An- 
geles, and, with the help of two brethren, resting three 
times, I was taken into the hall. 

"Brother W. C. Stevens asked me my desire. I 
said I came to be healed in Jesus' name. After a few 
words of exhortation they anointed me, laid their hands 
on me, and prayed, claiming the fulfillment of the prom- 
ise recorded in James v, 15, 'The prayer of faith shall 
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.' My 
pain was more than I could endure, every joint seemed to 
be pulling asunder, every bone breaking. I told them 
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134 MODBEN MlEACLES. 

"Two brethren helped me downstairs. I suffered 
greater pain than I had known since I was first stricken. 
At the foot of the stairway there is a flagstone three 
inches above the pavement, and as the brethren let go 
of me, I stepped upon the flagstone with my right foot, 
with my left foot toward the street below. Somewhere 
between the flagstone and the pavement — as already said, 
only three inches below — the Lord made me a free man! 
He delivered me from the power of the devil: the prayer 
of faith did save the sick, the Lord did raise me up! 

"As I went from the curbstone to the carriage, my 
whole thought was to go home and tell my precious 
wife; and as I went staggering into the house, light- 
hearted and free, my wife looked up, and said, 'Darling, 
how is it?' 'Wife/ said I, 'I am well!' I expected to 
hear her shout 'Glory!' but instead I observed the most 
incredulous expression upon her sweet face, as good as 
to say: 'Poor fool! Those people told you to say you 
were healed, and now you believe it/ I said, 'Wife, get 
me some beefsteak and bread, quick/ for I was hungry, 
the first time for months. It was the first time I had 
asked for something to eat that I really desired it. She 
speedily prepared it; and 0, how sweet, how sweet it 
was! I was so ravenous that I could not wait to use my 
knife and fork, but, taking it into my hands, devoured 
it like a hungry dog. I then said, 'Wife, fix my bed; 
I am sleepy/ She then, with increased haste and confi- 
dence, prepared my bed for me. 

"It was many months since I wanted to go to bed 
when I was up, or desired to get up when reclining. I 
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ing, and awoke feeling that I was indeed healed of the 
Lord, made 'every whit whole.' That was the 5th of 
February, 1895. 

"When I was stricken down, I weighed 225 pounds; 
when I was healed, I weighed 100 pounds. Three months 
after I was healed I weighed 190 pounds, having gained 
just one pound a day. Now I weigh 228 pounds — three 
pounds more than I weighed when I was injured. 

"I want to state that my heart had become misplaced, 
and that the doctors pronounced my left lung entirely 
gone. The morning after my healing I felt my heart 
beat 52 to the minute, when previously it had been run- 
ning from 120 to 160 per minute. 

"My nurse, Brother Lindsay, said to me, 'What about 
that pus, doctor? Will you not have a surgeon to take 
it out?' I had never thought of the pus poisoning my 
system; and I asked for the Holy Spirit to guide me. 
Quickly I looked up and said, 'Brother Lindsay, I have 
taken Jesus as my Physician, and I now take Him as 
my Surgeon/ Immediately there was a gurgling sound, 
and the pus came out through my bronchial tubes, fill- 
ing a vessel, and scenting the house with a foul odor, 
as of rotten eggs, so that nobody could stay in the room. 

"I have been examined repeatedly by physicians, and 
they have pronounced my left lung in as good condition 
as any one's; especially Dr. W. Exline, of Denver, Colo., 
who was with me for four months. He examined me 
ten months after I was healed, and publicly, at the 
Y. M. C. A. hall, Los Angeles, pronounced me a well 
man, and said that nothing but the unseen Hand could 
have thus marvelously restored me." 



136 Modern Miracles. 

After our brother had related this experience of the 
Lord's healing to an immense audience, he called for 
those who were sick and wanted prayer in Jesus' name 
for their recovery, also for sinners who desired salvation, 
to come forward, when, it is estimated, as many as two 
hundred persons responded. The peculiarity of it was 
that many of those who came for healing were the doc- 
tor's own patients — Dr. Yoakum uses natural remedies 
and skill for those who have not faith to take Jesus as 
their physician — upon seeing which our brother humor- 
ously remarked to Brother Merritt, of New York, who 
was standing beside him at the time, he believed he 
would have to hunt himself a new calling. 

"And it came to pass that the father of Publius 
lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul 
entered in and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and 
healed him. So when this was done, others also, which 
had diseases in the island, came, and were healed." (Acts 
xxviii, 8, 9.) 



CHAPTER XX. 

TESTIMONY OF MRS. L. B. DEARBORNE. 

Beveely, Mass., January 15, 1901. 
Me. H. T. Davis: 

Dear Sir, — Your letter at hand. Have only a word 
to add to my testimony. Have been perfectly well for 
seven years, proving that the healing was complete. 
May the Lord bless you in your work! 

Sincerely, Mks. L. B. Deaeboene. 

Eor twelve years I had suffered with a serious internal 
trouble which the best medical skill and treatment failed 
to remove. Four years ago la grippe left me with a 
complication which baffled the skill of five physicians, 
besides my husband, who is a physician, and finally 
prostrated me for ten weeks with ulceration of the in- 
testines, during which time, and for weeks afterward, 
I was obliged to live entirely upon liquid food. 

Improving somewhat, I was able to take a little solid 
food, and, with careful driving, to ride each pleasant day; 
but I soon found my limit in food, exertion, and pleas- 
ure, and was obliged to rigidly adhere to it in order to 
be in any degree comfortable. The nerves of my face 
were so sensitive that I could not lie down, even in a 

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138 Modern Miracles. 

warm, closed room, without lace or something of the 
kind over my face, as the ordinary circulation of air 
was sufficient to start up neuralgia, and, rather than 
suffer its excruciating pain, I was obliged to cover my 
face, even in the hottest weather, when reclining. How- 
ever thirst}^, not a swallow of liquid could be taken be- 
tween meals without bringing on the distressing symp- 
toms of intestinal trouble. I could not bear the least 
conversation after my evening meal without a sleepless 
night, and, with the many other distressing and annoy- 
ing phases of my condition, of which these are but sam- 
ples, I often said, "It is more than it is worth to live." 
There was so little good that I could do, and so much 
care was needed to keep myself from being a burden 
to others. 

About this time I heard Mrs. Whittemore, of New 
York, speak of her healing of spinal disease which had 
been pronounced incurable. My esteem for Mrs. Whitte- 
more compelled me to admit the truth in her case; but 
when she spoke of throwing aside remedies, I was re- 
pelled. I considered it mere presumption to refuse to use 
the means which God had provided, and then ask Him to 
use experimental power instead, little dreaming it was 
what He had commanded, as in James v, 14, and that 
the remedies were but another proof of His loving care 
for His children who had not learned or could not fully 
trust Him. I tried to dismiss the subject from my mind. 

A few weeks later, while reading Matt, xxi, I was pe- 
culiarly impressed by the twenty-first and twenty-second 
verses; also Matt, xvii and xx. I saw, as never before, 
that the usual theological explanation was entirely in- 
adequate. Christ was speaking of temporal and mate- 



Testimony of Mes. L. B. Dearborn. 139 

rial things, and "all things" certainly includes more 
than spiritual. I knew that He who said, "Ye shall 
give an account of every idle word," would not Him- 
self use idle words; and I began praying and believing 
that He would heal me if it was His will. I knew He 
could heal me, but dishonored Him by thinking perhaps 
He was not willing to do what He had the power to do, 
as my illness might be needed as a discipline — a fallacy 
too prevalent to-day. If sickness is a discipline from 
God, why not submit to it, or go to God alone for its 
removal, rather than be so inconsistent and rebellious 
as to try every means believed in to get out of the dis- 
cipline ? 

While praying to be healed, I still used my medicines, 
believing I ought, and that He would bless them. I 
grew continually worse, until my physicians told me all 
I could do was to experiment; I might find something 
that would help me; but the more I experimented in 
medicine, the worse I grew. That which helped one 
disease aggravated another, until in despair I dropped 
all medicine, except in extreme distress. My diet was 
confined exclusively to barley-flour gruel and boiled milk, 
the intestines refusing to retain or digest any other food; 
and I was on the verge of nervous prostration when the 
dear Lord brought me to feel that possibly Mrs. Whitte- 
more might be right, and it would be well to go to New 
York and investigate Divine Healing — not Christian 
Science — that being the only place that I had known of 
its being taught. To attempt such a journey in my 
condition seemed foolhardy, and I dismissed the thought, 
only to have it recur again and again for days, until, 
taking the matter to the Lord, I felt that it was His 



140 Modern- Miracles. 

will for me, and that He would supply the strength for 
the journey. 

October 23, 1893, I went to Berachah Home, New 
York City, carrying my medicine and barley-flour with 
me, but determined to learn the secret of healing through 
Christ. The fact of the atonement being the foundation 
for our healing was a revelation to me at the morning 
prayers, and I spent the entire forenoon alone with 
God in deep study of His Word, until I became convinced 
of the glorious truth, and, no longer doubting His will- 
ingness to heal, I claimed my healing through the atone- 
ment, and, stepping out upon God's promises, I was 
healed. 

At the end of the week I returned home well, able 
to digest and assimilate any food, to walk a mile with- 
out difficulty, and to attend to my household duties with 
ease. My strength has incrseased until the query comes 
from all about me, "How can you accomplish so much?" 
I simply depend, moment by moment, upon Him who has 
promised to supply all my needs according to His riches 
in glory by Christ Jesus. One or two testings came; 
but I treated them as temptations of Satan, and just 
reverently, but firmly, held God to His Word, and He 
honored it by removing them. I have used no remedies 
of any kind for a year, and I realize what a luxury and 
an economy it is to be free from dosing and drugs. 
that Christians would see their privilege as sons and 
daughters of God, and learn how much better it is to 
trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man! 

Lila C. Dearborne. 

38 Colon Street, Beverly, Mass. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

A BROKEN SHOULDER INSTANTLY HEALED IN 
ANSWER TO PRAYER. 

Mks. J. M. Saxton is a member of the Trinity Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, of Lincoln, Neb. We are per- 
sonally acquainted with her. When a small girl, her 
little brother had his shoulder badly broken, and was 
instantly healed in answer to prayer. 

We requested Mrs. Saxton to get her father's testi- 
mony touching this remarkable miracle. This she kindly 
did. The following letter from her father, and the testi- 
mony, signed by her father and mother, uncle and aunt, 
all four of whom were present when the boy was healed, 
speak for themselves: 

"Ellington, Chautauqua County, N. Y. 

March 2, 1901. 
"Dear Children, — It was — and no mistake — a mir- 
acle and one of the proofs I had that there is no such 
thing as a difficult or hard case for the Lord. He speaks, 
and it is done. I sometimes wish I had a thousand 
tongues to sing my dear Redeemer's praise! 

"Your father, J. W. Luce." 

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142 MODEKN MlEACLES. 

"In 1871, while haymaking, the Lord wrought a mir- 
acle on our oldest son, a boy seven years of age. 

"The boy and I, with the hired man, had rode in 
from a distant part of the field on a load of hay. In 
an attempt to jump from the load to the mow, where I 
was, the boy hit his head against the lower corner of 
the beam, and, turning a somersault, went down be- 
tween the load and mow, headforemost, to the naked 
barn-floor, dislocating and smashing down his shoulder 
so we could hear the broken bones grate when we moved 
the arm upward, or in any way. And whenever we at- 
tempted to move the arm he would immediately faint 
away. The next day my older brother and his wife were 
strongly impressed that we were in trouble, and came 
over. We were indeed glad to see them, for we wanted 
help in prayer. We all knelt, and I requested them not 
to rise from their knees until the boy was healed. We 
each prayed four times, when the boy was instantly 
healed, and exclaimed, 'Ma^ my arm is well/ 

"The next morning, to prove to an ungodly uncle that 
he was not a cripple, as his uncle told him he would be 
for life, he carried a tin pail of water on that arm from 
the spring. 

"That boy is now a strong, square-shouldered man, has 
never been troubled in that part of his body with weak- 
ness or any deformity. 



"(Signed,) 



"Joseph W. Luce, 
"Lucy P. Luce, 
"Rev. William Luce, 
"Box anna Luce." 



CHAPTER XXII. 

ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIES. 

1. Testimony of Rev. P. W. Philpott. 

Hamilton, Canada, January 18, 1901. 
Deae Bkothek, — If my testimony can be made a 
blessing, yon are most welcome to nse it as you desire. 
Numbers vi, 24-26. Yours in Him, 

P. W. Philpott. 

"After some seven years' incessant preaching and 
singing, both in and out of doors, my voice failed me, 
and I was forced to give up public ministry, and con- 
fine myself to office work for some months. Besides the 
loss of voice, I suffered dreadfully from what is com- 
monly known as 'preacher's sore throat,' and my strength 
so gave out that I could not walk three blocks without 
being exhausted. I was discouraged and despondent. 
I consulted several of the leading physicians in Toronto, 
but none of them gave me any hope of ever being able 
to preach again, and two of them stated that I must 
never attempt such a thing. At this time I placed myself 
in the hands of dear old Dr. Akins, of Toronto (he is now 
in glory), and he gave me treatment for several months; 

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144 Modern Miracles. 

but my throat grew worse and I became more and more 
disheartened. About the last time I went to have my 
throat examined, the doctor said as he looked at it, 
f Why, it is a house afire, Philpott.' His advice was to 
go up to the Northwest on a farm for two or three years, 
as he thought that climate Would help me. 

"Some five or six months before this I had attended 
a Divine healing meeting conducted by Pastor John Sal- 
mon and Dr. E. J. Zimmerman, but was so disgusted 
at what I then thought was the biggest lot of humbug 
I had ever heard from religious teachers, that I left the 
service before it was half over. 

"But day by day, as my throat became worse and my 
voice weaker, the dear Lord kept one or two of the pas- 
sages I had heard our brethren emphasize continually 
before me, especially James v, 14, and I could not make 
it mean anything else than what it said, and concluded 
that God would heal me if I would obey the command of 
His Word. But the difficult part was the calling for 
the elders. I knew of no one who would anoint me apart 
from Brothers Zimmerman and Salmon, and I was con- 
siderably prejudiced against them; but this all had to 
come out before the Lord would make me whole. 

"And at last I conquered the flesh and went to 
Bethany Home, where a Divine-healing service was being 
held, and confessed my faults and requested the prayers 
of, and to be anointed by, these servants of the Master. 

"Christ had been the Savior of my soul for ten years, 
but that night He became the strength of my life also. 

"I was healed that night, and went the next Sunday 
and conducted three services, and in ten days I was in 



Additional Testimonies. 145 

the midst of a great camp-meeting, where I preached 
from two to three sermons each day for two weeks, and 
for eight years He has been my strength. I preach 
nearly every night of my life, and very often three times 
a day for weeks together. In the summer, besides my 
regular indoor meetings I preach in the open air three 
times every week, and I do it all with greater ease than 
I ever did my work before I knew this 'more excellent 
way/ To God be the glory through Jesus Christ!" 

2. Mrs. L. A. Gilbert Healed of a Tumor. 

"Hammonton, N. J., January 18, 1901. 

"My Dear Brother, — You can use my testimony, 
and welcome. I can add nothing only to emphasize all I 
have said. Another year of work and marvelous health 
has passed since the writing of the following testimony. 

"With best wishes for the success of your work, I 
am most sincerely yours, Mrs. L. A. Gilbert." 

"It is nearly six years since I was healed of a large 
tumor. I was then living in a suburb of Portland, Ore- 
gon, and did not know of any Christians about me who 
believed in the prayer of faith to save the sick, accord- 
ing to St. James. I tried, but in vain, to find some one 
able and willing to offer that prayer. Failing in this, I 
trusted the Lord alone to come to my relief. 

"I had learned while living in California several years 

before, both by observation and experience, that Christ 

was as able and willing to heal all our diseases now as 

when He made such a specialty of healing while upon 

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146 Modern Miracles. 

earth. There I was surrounded by a loving band of be- 
lievers, who saw that in the atonement our healing was 
purchased, as well as the forgiveness of our sins and the 
bearing of our sorrows and burdens, if we but cast them 
upon Him. Now, I seemed shut in alone with God, but 
was not afraid. One year before this I had been almost 
instantly healed of a serious lung trouble, the effects of 
la grippe, while looking up my Bible passages on the 
subject. I got right up and wrote in my diary under that 
date, 'Have come to a new place in my life; will set up 
a pillar as did Jacob of old/ I then gave myself, all I 
had and the work of my hands, to the Lord, as never 
before. From that time on, until I saw the tumor grow- 
ing upon my body, my life had been one continual psalm 
of praise. 

"Work for others opened up without my seeking, more 
especially jail and prison work. Then work among fallen 
women, and so on; but to return to my subject. From the 
beginning this tumor was not a feather's weight to my 
mind, for I knew whom I had believed. While waiting 
patiently for the Lord to work in His own time and way, 
a most devoted Christian man came to the house, whom 
I knew had not only been healed, but kept well by his 
daily faith. I told him I believed he had been sent to 
pray for me. He said that he would prefer to join with 
others of like faith, and mentioned some sisters across 
the river who went out to pray for the sick. After assur- 
ing me they were not 'cranks/ only plain, simple Chris- 
tians, we were soon on our way to find them. The busy 
housekeepers gladly laid aside their work to read God's 
Word, to pray, to anoint, and to sing, 'He healeth me, 



Additional Testimonies. 147 

He healeth me,' etc. It was a blessed, quiet, solemn hour 
with God. I went out from that house fully expecting to 
be healed soon, as I had complied with all the conditions 
that I knew of; not so. As week followed week, and 
month followed month, I saw myself getting larger and 
weaker, and all the physical conditions during this time 
no words can express. My body seemed given over to 
Satan, but my spirit was as light as air. Daily and hourly 
the tempter would say to me, 'You know you are getting 
worse ; do not deceive yourself any longer/ Just as often 
I would turn and reply, 'I am healed, I know I am healed, 
only waiting the manifestation in God's time/ This was 
all so different from what I had anticipated; but as my 
body weakened, my faith strengthened, until I told the 
Lord I would go ten years if He wished me to, and still 
believe I would be fully restored to health. 

"To me it was like a mathematical problem. I knew 
God was able and willing to heal. That nothing was 
hard for Him. That He was no respecter of persons. 
That He had healed thousands of others, and was just 
as willing to heal me. There I hung. At the earnest 
request of a relative, a specialist was called to the house 
to see if I really had a tumor. The physician said, among 
other things, 'You have no time to spare in being oper- 
ated upon/ He told me what kind of tumor it was, and 
the immediate danger either with or without an oper- 
ation. All this did not startle me, as I had but one 
object in getting this information, to silence skeptics 
afterwards. The long dark period that I was given over 
to be tempted and tried in this manner, I could compare 
to nothing but being under the sea with Jonah, away 



148 Modern Miracles. 

from all human help and with 'the weeds about my head/ 
When relief came, it was so gradual that I could scarcely 
perceive it. My strength came first; then very slowly the 
tumor disappeared. 

'TJp to this time I had always been considered deli- 
cate in health. Since then I have not only had almost 
perfect health, but have had most remarkable power of 
endurance from day to day." 



3. Testimony of A. W. Hall. 

"East Highland, Cal., January 17, 1901. 

"My Dear Brother in Christ, — I am glad if any- 
thing I can say will bring any honor to our living Lord, 
and gladly consent to your use of my testimony. He 
who freely gives us all things has imparted His life to us. 
He does not withhold anything, and gives us omnipo- 
tent power in prayer. I often think of the time when I 
was sick as the best ninety days of my life, and I am in 
my sixty-seventh year. 

"We who are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, 
members of His body (Ephesians v, 30), can confidently 
rely on His promises, and that He will surely care for 
His own body. Praise the Lord! 

"Sincerely yours, A. W. Hall." 

"A little more than one year ago I fell from a ladder 
while picking oranges. My left forearm and hand re- 
ceived some injury, but not enough to prevent me from 
keeping at work. In a few days the arm commenced 
to swell and darken, and phlegmonous erysipelas devel- 



Additional Testimonies. 149 

oped. All of my family have for years believed that 
Jesus made full atonement for body, as well as soul, and 
that He did not need man's help any more to-day than 
He did when Paul, preaching to the Athenians, declared 
(Acts xvii, 25), 'Nor is served by men's hands as some- 
thing, Himself giving to all life and breath and all 
things/ (E. V.) We did not seek or ask medical aid; 
but a very dear friend, who is a physician of many years' 
practice, came to see me as one friend calls on another. 

"I daily grew worse, and my arm was shown him 
when I was in a semi-conscious state. 

"He was very much disturbed and distressed, and 
went to my son-in-law to have him inform me and my 
family of my condition. The doctor stated that my arm 
was dead, and unless it was cut off I would surely die; 
that there was no other remedy, nothing could restore 
it to life. This was made known to us, and of course 
caused deep sorrow and pain. But none of us wished to 
change from our belief that Jesus would care for me, 
and the Lord's will was our will. 

"The following Sunday we had a call from a very dear 
sister and brother in Christ, and of course we had a 
season of prayer and praise, and I felt the sister's prayer 
would be answered. 

"My condition was desperate, the arm and hand 
greatly enlarged, swollen, and black, while large holes in 
the arm and back of hand exposed the muscles and bones 
to plain view. Quantities of matter would exude when 
the dressings were changed, filling the whole house with 
most offensive odors. In a day or two our friend, the 
doctor, called to add his entreaty that I should consent 



150 MODERN" MlRACLES. 

to amputation; but after examination he was surprised 
to find that healing had commenced, the odor was gone, 
the swelling greatly reduced, and there was no reason 
for amputation. The doctor thought it would be impos- 
sible for me to ever have the use of my arm, or the flesh 
and skin to close over the wound. But to-day only a faint 
scar shows where were great holes, and I have almost 
complete use of hand and arm. 

"The greatest blessings remain to be told. The Holy 
Spirit was with me, filling me with peace and joy. 

"In all of my long life I can not recall a time so full 
of content and happiness as the ninety days I was con- 
fined to my house during this sickness and convalescence. 
Many times, not once or twice, but scores of times, did 
Jehovah Eophi (Ex. xv, 26) answer silent prayers of 
myself or others, and quiet rest or sleep take the place 
of pain and suffering. I had many times feelings of 
exultation and praise to take complete possession of my 
spirit and body. Praise be to His name!" 



4. Testimony of Susie H. Phillips. 

"Newport, Ky., January 14, 1901. 
"Mr. H. T. Davis: 

"Brother in Christ, — Your request has been received. 
Have only to say that if my testimony can be of any 
use to you, and bring any glory to my precious Master, 
I am thankful and willing that you should use it. This 
testimony was written nine years ago. The dear Lord 
healed me in the early summer of 1885. It is now nearly 
sixteen years since He came to abide. He is still the 



Additional Testimonies. 151 

same loving, precious, gentle, tender Shepherd, Friend, 
and Healer as in days of yore; nay, much more, my 
health, my Bridegroom, and my coming King. Praise 
His name. Susie H. Phillips. 

"1032 Columbia Street, Newport, Ky." 

"The dear Lord allowed my health and strength and 
all to fail to bring me to Himself. I was just eighteen 
years of age when I suddenly realized that I was a hope- 
less, helpless cripple. Through a bit of girlish willful- 
ness, and I think principally because I did not yield 
myself to God, my strength gave way. Disease that I 
knew nothing about had been making a prey of me, and 
now I was becoming more and more helpless every day. 
In the early spring of the next year I yielded my heart 
to Jesus, and found pardon for all my sins. After this I 
had a deep longing for holiness of heart and life. I read 
and studied and prayed all alone with Him, whom now 
1 could call my God. But I was watching my feelings, 
and of course I felt no better. Occasionally I read or 
heard of Divine healing. Once I thought I would try 
to walk in the strength of the Lord, as I had lost the use 
of myself so much that I could not stand on my feet or 
walk; I fell. I was wearing a support and trusting in 
the arm of flesh, and the dear Lord had to let me down 
a little lower. The fall affected my spine, and then I 
was more or less confined to my bed, and was getting more 
crooked and helpless. 

"Then the Lord sent me a message through some of 
His dear people, that I must lay aside all medicine and 
helps of every kind. If I wanted Him to heal me, I 



152 Modern - Mikaoles. 

must trust in God alone. More than this, I must conse- 
crate myself entirely to the Lord, that henceforth I 
should yield a willing obedience to the voice of my God, 
take me where He will. It was something new to not 
accept my freedom, and tell what He has done for me. 
I accordingly arose from my bed, having lain aside the 
support I had been wearing and all medicine, not watch- 
ing my feelings this time, but trusting alone in Him and 
His finished work, and with a little help from my mother 
walked out into the next room, the first time for two 
years. My almost constant prayer now was, 'Father, 
glorify Thy name.' how sweetly He would answer, 
'I have glorified it, and will glorify it again!' And then 
wave after wave of Divine power swept over my entire 
being, and I felt within myself that I was made whole. 
I sometimes said to my mother, 'I feel the peace of God 
in my body.' how I loved to say, 'Thy will be done!' 
I kept gaining in strength every day. The symptoms 
gradually disappeared. They never troubled me very 
much because I was trusting His Word and work this 
time — not my feelings; so that in one year after I ac- 
cepted Jesus as my Physician every symptom had dis- 
appeared, and I was doing house-cleaning and all kinds 
of hard work that a woman must needs do on a farm. 
A complete redemption for soul and body. , It is now 
nearly seven years since Jesus healed me, and it is need- 
less to say I have never since desired any other physician. 
Neither have I at any time since taken medicine nor used 
remedies. Praise the Lord, glory to His name! 'Jesus is 
mighty to save!' Praise His name!" 



Additional Testimonies. 153 

5. Testimony of W. H. Crawford. 
"Manchester, N. H., January 14, 1901. 
"Me. H. T. Davis: 

"Dear Friend and Brother, — I received your note of 
the 10th inst., and will say, if my testimony will be of use 
to God, surely you are at liberty to use it. May God bless 
you in His service, and make you a blessing to others! 

"Yours in Jesus' name, W. H. Crawfokd. 

"48 A Street, Manchester, 1ST. H. 

"When only thirteen years old I injured my ankle. 
I was riding on the tailboard of an express wagon. I 
jumped off and slipped on a car-track, spraining the 
ankle, and I also dislocated the kneecap of the right leg. 

"I was laid up six weeks to draw the kneecap back 
into place. Not being able to step on the leg on account 
of having to keep the leg out straight, the ankle was 
overlooked. I was a wild boy, getting into all the vices 
of sin my age would permit. I finally got so bad my 
father thought best to send me out of Boston into the 
country, which I thank God was the means whereby I 
heard of a Jesus that saves. 

"I went to one of the best surgeons; but how I suf- 
fered with it no one knows, only those who have had a 
like experience. 

"0 if I had only known then of Jesus' power to heal 
the body! I belonged to a Church that did not teach 
such things. 

"I endured this suffering for thirteen long years, and 
then I heard of a preacher who anointed the sick accord- 
ing to James v, 14, 15. So I went to hear him out of 



154 Mode™ Miracles. 

curiosity, and was convicted of the truth of it in the 
Scriptures. But Satan said it was not for everybody, 
and so I doubted. One night about twelve o'clock I 
couldn't stand the pain any longer; I got out of bed, 
fell on my knees, and cried to God, and He answered me 
with this Scripture (Psalm ciii, 3), 'Who forgiveth all 
thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases/ . 

"The Lord said so sweetly, 'Can not you believe My 
Word?' What a rebuke! I said, 'Yes, Lord.' Then the 
Lord said, 'Throw away the iodine/ '0! must I do that?' 
and after a few moments I said, 'Yes, Lord/ I went and 
threw it out of the window as far as I could, and came 
back and thanked the Lord for my healing, went to bed, 
slept the rest of the night. 

"I arose the next morning, dressed, went to breakfast, 
and did not know by feeling, till the middle of the fore- 
noon, that I had had any pain in my ankle, and that was 
not very much. In less than three days it was perfectly 
well, and as strong as the other. It has been six years 
since this was done, and I have been kept with only one 
test, the soreness came into it a little to see if I would 
trust; but I gave Jesus the victory. I also was subject 
to blind headaches ; but they were committed to Him, and 
they had to go. Praise the Lord! I want to recommend 
my Jesus as an all round Savior, and He does not do 
anything by halves. Just trust Him." 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

HOW TO RECEIVE DIVINE HEALING. 

To offek "the prayer of faith" for the healing of the 
body some things must be clearly and definitely settled 
in the mind. 

First. Settle it in your own mind that Divine healing 
is promised in God's Word as definitely as pardon, or 
sanctification, or any other blessing. Settle it at once 
and forever, so that you will never discuss it again, that 
this is God's Word. 

I remember, after weeks of rigid searching of the 
Scriptures and intense, agonizing prayer, I reached the 
point where I saw Divine healing in the Bible as clearly 
as I saw any other doctrine therein taught. It stood 
out before me as bright as the noonday sun. 

Second. Settle it in your mind that Divine healing 
is for you, individually, and that it is for you on the 
simple condition of faith. Your faith in the Lord Jesus 
as your Divine Healer must be implicit. There must be 
no wavering. "He that wavereth is like a wave of the 
sea driven with the wind and tossed." There must be no 
"if," no "perhaps," no "hesitation," whatever. Plant 
yourself on the everlasting promises of God, and claim 
them for the thing prayed for, without a wavering doubt. 

155 



156 MODEOEMT MlKACLES. 

The faith that brings healing to the body is God- 
given. It is "the faith of the Son of God," hence Om- 
nipotent. (Galatians ii, 20.) 

The faith that brings pardon and sanctification is a 
grace; the faith that brings healing to the body is a gift. 
(1 Corinthians xii, 9, 28.) It is a wonderful gift, and this 
wonderful gift thousands more might have if they only 
lived up to their high privileges. 

Third. "You must reach a point, and cross it, and 
put down a stake, and mark it forever, that at that very 
moment, until the coming of the great judgment-day, 
something was settled and passed out of your hands 
forever." 

I remember when I called heaven and earth to wit- 
ness that I took Jesus Christ as my physical life, just as 
I had taken Him as my spiritual life. That seemed to 
me the most sacred moment of my life, and that trans- 
action the most sacred transaction I ever entered into. 
It means a- great deal to pass the body over forever into 
the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Fourth. Your heart must be perfectly right before 
God. There must be nothing between you and the Al- 
mighty. Between you and the great Jehovah there must 
be perfect harmony. Then you must be right with your 
fellow-men. If there is anything wrong between you 
and your fellow-men you must resolve to settle it at once. 

Fifth. You must ask to be healed for God's glory 
alone, and when healed spend your whole life for God's 
glory. 

I remember very distinctly when I said: "0 Lord, I 
ask to be healed, not for my own personal gratification, 



How to Receive Divine Healing. 157 

not for any selfish motive whatever, but for Thy glory 
only." And since I took Christ as my Healer, it has 
seemed that I belong to Him in a sense that I never be- 
longed to Him before; that every thought and word and 
act must be for the glory of God, in a deeper sense than 
ever before felt. 

Sixth. As conviction for pardon and sanctification 
come to the heart, so conviction to give up human reme- 
dies and trust in Christ alone for the healing of the body 
will come to the soul. This conviction may come through 
the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, or human agency. 
This conviction should be clear, and until it is we ought 
to wait upon God until we are certain that it is His will 
that we should be healed by faith. 

Seventh. "Remember that with healing, as with sal- 
vation, you must accept it by faith before you realize it. 
It sometimes is experienced instantaneously, at others 
gradually. Leave that with God." (John iv, 52.) 

Finally. We must all die. "His days are determined." 
(Job xiv, 5.) "It is appointed unto man once to die." 
(Hebrews ix, 27.) There is a limit to life. When that is 
reached, then faith will claim heaven instead of health, 
and the trusting child of God, divinely persuaded, may 
be enabled to feel and say: "I have fought a good fight, 
I have finished my course, I have kept the faith! Hence- 
forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, 
which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me at 
that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that 
love His appearing." (2 Timothy iv, 7.) 



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